Lady Gaga says meat was sewn onto a corset to create her controversial VMAs dress

• Lady Gaga recently spoke with British Vogue about some of her most iconic looks.
• She said her controversial meat dress from 2010 was crafted with a corset, making it a real dress.

Lady Gaga has explained her controversial meat dress approximately 11 years after wearing it.

The musician and actress recently sat down with British Vogue to discuss 19 of her most iconic looks. One of those, of course, was the minidress made from meat that she wore to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, California.

According to the "House of Gucci" star, the look was the idea of makeup artist Val Garland, who told Gaga that she had once gone to a party wearing sausages.

"I thought this was quite funny, and I said, 'Well, that's a great way to make sure that everybody leaves you alone at a party,'" Gaga said.

From there, according to Gaga, she spoke with her "artistic friends" about whether or not she should make a statement that extended beyond fashion on the red carpet.

They decided she should, specifically in support of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy repeal, which President Barack Obama signed in 2011 to allow gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans to openly serve in the armed forces.

"We decided to do the meat dress because I thought to myself, 'If you are willing to die for your country, what does it matter how you identify?'" she said.

It was carefully crafted with meat sewn onto a corset, Gaga told the publication, so that it was "actually a garment."

"They didn't just drape meat over me and cross their fingers," she said.

Gaga then went on to reflect on the day she wore the dress. She said her then-stylist Brandon Maxwell sewed "last bits of meat" to her, despite being vegan at the time.

"It smelled like meat," the musician said of the dress. "It was thrilling to wear."