10 Good Things on a Monday: Ten Lady Gaga Outfits I Love

10 Good Things on a Monday is a weekly feature  I am doing dedicated to every person's compulsive list-writing.  Every Monday we are going to make a list of 10 things that will cheer us up and help tide us over the whole week.

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Here's how it works:

1. Think of a particular group of good things you want to make a list on, does not necessarily have to be about books, e.g. your current book wish list, or your favorite book foods (you know, foods you love to eat while reading, if you're like me), or your favorite girly names, whatever you can think of, as long as it makes you feel good.
2. If you have no ideas for a list, you can always visit my blog post to check out my theme for that week and you can take a cue from my list.
3. Post your list on your blog, grab that cute ARGH button above and put it on your post too, so we'd know you're doing this meme.
4. Leave the link for your post on my own 10 Good Things post for the week, if you see others doing it, comment too and let's share our good things with everybody.
5. Everybody goes through the whole week happy!

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My 10 Good Things for this week:  Ten Lady Gaga Outfits I Love

Lady Gaga is one of the biggest stars in the music scene right now.  I don't know if you like her or not, I myself am still at a crossroads on that one.  On one hand, I don't care much for her music - though they always get  me dancing - but they're not something I would listen to say, while reading or doing something that needs music to keep me going.  On the other hand, her outfits really make my day.  They may be outrageous and totally crazy but that's her brand and it's what gets her noticed.  I love how she owned her weirdness and turned it into a formidable asset.

But no, I did not like the meat costume.  All those wasted would-be steak!

1.  The Origami Dress - I really loved this costume, it looks so cute on her:

2.  The Layered Cake Outfit - Something that's very easy to do for Halloween!

3.  Pretty in Pink - I love pink! And she looks semi-normal here:

4.  The Hello Kitty Dress - I love Hello Kitty and although Gaga looks a tad too weird here, all those Hello Kitties save the day:

5.  The Bubble Costume - Very unique!

6.  The Lace Cover - If it weren't for the whole hilarious effect, I'd say this is pretty scary:

7.  The Grammy Gown - Can I go use this for my wedding?  :D

8.  The Chain Jail-Bird Outfit - Her hairstyle is what I loved best in this outfit, but the whole ensemble is pretty awesome too:

9.   American Super Hero Costume - She looks like a modern-day Wonder Woman:

10.  The Bad Romance Diamond Outfit - I thought this was a pretty fabulous get-up, and she looked so hot in this:

 There you go for my good things this week.  What are yours?

Feature: Audrey Hepburn and Her Timeless Style

Recently, I picked up a copy of Audrey Style, a book about Audrey Hepburn's style AND lifestyle, by Pamela Clarke Keogh.  I am a very big Audrey fan and this is my first ever book of her.  Reading through it made me believe more in the extraordinary character that she is on- and off-screen. 

I was supposed to write a book review of the above-mentioned book but I was too thrilled to tell you about that book's subject so I'm going ahead with that instead.

With more than one hundred photographs in the book of this beautiful lady, her simple, sleek, and classy style is clearly appreciated.  What is more interesting to note is that most - if not all - of her ensembles are still workable in today's fashions, if not the basic foundation of most outfits.  They would forever be timeless, yet modern.

Her appeal, I found on further reading and research, also extended on her book choices.  Some of her favorite books included:  The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, and of course, Anne Frank:  The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.  It is interesting to note that a celebrity of her magnitude still found time to read and be affected by the books she read.  According to her, reading Anne Frank's diary  "devastated her." (Keogh, 196)  She also added that it was a complete account of what she went through in those hard times.  They were the same age when World War II happened and the experience was something that stayed with her throughout her life - unlike Anne Frank who did not survive the war.

I know that this post is totally off-topic since I talked more about a person that the book, but I hope that you would still enjoy reading this as I really had fun writing it :D

Some really fabulous Audrey-inspired outfits:

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Marianna♫ featuring velvet evening dresses

Roman Holiday by audrey2323

Untitled by anebe (off for a while)

 Some Audrey Hepburn Trivia:

1. She once kept a pet fawn named Ip which her then-husband Mel Ferrer gave her in preparation for her role in Green Mansions.
2. She agreed to play Maid Marian opposite to Sean Connery as Robin Hood in the movie Robin and Marian partly because her sons wanted to finally meet Sean Connery who was then-James Bond.
3. On her first meeting with Cary Grant (Charade), she accidentally knocked an entire bottle of red wine all over the latter's suit.

Another trivia:  She draws, and quite beautifully too!  Check out some of her drawings:

Awesome, right?