Giambattista Valli Haute Couture cape, gown. Gasoline Glamour hat. Chopard earrings, necklace. Tiffany & Co. rings. Photo by Nathaniel Goldberg/The Lindsay Thompson Company.'s release, but getting to this place has been a thorny process. She has been to hell and back and has lived to tell the tale through her music. Stratospheric fame is overwhelming enough, but for years Gaga was suffering from PTSD from having been raped when she was 19.
What does someone who has experienced so much really want out of life?"Marriage," says the star ."More music, more movies, more charity with the Born This Way Foundation [a nonprofit dedicated to empowering youth and supporting mental health and wellness]. I want to do way more philanthropy. I want to help fund more research about fibromyalgia and neuropathic and chronic pain by putting a team of doctors together. I have a lot of dreams and hopes.
Politics are also on her mind, although Gaga, who famously campaigned for Hillary Clinton in 2016, hasn't publicly gotten behind a candidate yet. "I want to make an informed decision as a citizen on who to vote for in the election, but I do not obsess over figures who do not deserve to be obsessed over," she says."I'm not going to hang my hat for humanity on one individual. It's also on us to run this country.
Given all the cultural and political dissonance, it's no coincidence that in the video for"Stupid Love," colorbased"Hauses" are — metaphor alert! — fighting through their differences. Gaga came up with the concept and revealed it to director Daniel Askill in a voice note. Her return to form included reuniting with her longtime friend and stylist Nicola Formichetti, who is responsible for some of the more resplendent looks of her early career .