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Local steakhouse creates $100,000 version of Lady Gaga meat costume, waitress models
..Local steakhouse creates $100,000 version of Lady Gaga meat costume, waitress models in Meatpacking
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EmailPrint..By New York Daily News new York Daily News ? Wed Oct 27, 2:13 pm ET
Oren Yaniv, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Lady Gaga fans, sink your teeth into this Grade A knockoff of her famous meat dress.
All you need to wear this beefy, 85-pound piece of carnivore couture is $100,000 - and a lot of gumption.
"I wanted it to be a cut above," said Marc Sherry, owner of the Old Homestead Steakhouse, appropriately located in the Meatpacking District.
The pop diva donned the out-there outfit at last month's MTV Video Music Awards, and it has become the most searched celebrity costume, according to Yahoo.com.
But the dress turned Sherry's stomach, looking "very tacky" since it was made from flank steaks. So the Gaga fan set out to make a garment with top-notch cuts.
"When he came up to me with the idea," recalled general manager Luis Acosta, "I told him, 'You're going gaga.' "
See meat dress video and a Lady Gaga slideshow at NY Daily News online.
His team went to the cutting board and cooked up the result: a vestment made of porterhouse, leggings from rib eye and kobe beef boots, all USDA prime.
"It smells so good," said Mery Lopez, 26, a waitress-turned-model who bravely posed yesterday with the edible attire. "It's heavy, but not that much."
The kitchen crew stitched it all together using butcher's twine and accessorized the look with a necklace of marrow bones topped with a 32-ounce rib eye chapeau.
"It's a learning process and I think we're doing a pretty good job," said executive chef Oscar Martinez. "I'm not Oscar de la Renta when it comes to design."
After the suit was ready, the bovine-bedecked Lopez attracted curious stares from passersby, but, thankfully, no dogs.
The dress comes with a designer goody bag stuffed with filet mignon, chocolate sauce, kobe burgers and candy corn.
And the costume itself can actually be eaten, with cooks from the 142-year-old restaurant set to do the carving and offering recipe ideas.
"Wear it for an hour, have fun with it ... Then you might have enough meat for six months for your freezer," Sherry suggested. "So that the $100,000 is not that expensive."
Of course, he'd gladly sell it to Lady Gaga herself, helping the singer appear, he said, "Like a real piece of meat."
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Photo credit: Old Homestead Steak House waitress Mery Lopez models the restaurant's $100,000 Lady Gaga costume, made of grade A prime cuts. Craig Warga for the NY Daily News
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EmailPrint..By New York Daily News new York Daily News ? Wed Oct 27, 2:13 pm ET
Oren Yaniv, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Lady Gaga fans, sink your teeth into this Grade A knockoff of her famous meat dress.
All you need to wear this beefy, 85-pound piece of carnivore couture is $100,000 - and a lot of gumption.
"I wanted it to be a cut above," said Marc Sherry, owner of the Old Homestead Steakhouse, appropriately located in the Meatpacking District.
The pop diva donned the out-there outfit at last month's MTV Video Music Awards, and it has become the most searched celebrity costume, according to Yahoo.com.
But the dress turned Sherry's stomach, looking "very tacky" since it was made from flank steaks. So the Gaga fan set out to make a garment with top-notch cuts.
"When he came up to me with the idea," recalled general manager Luis Acosta, "I told him, 'You're going gaga.' "
See meat dress video and a Lady Gaga slideshow at NY Daily News online.
His team went to the cutting board and cooked up the result: a vestment made of porterhouse, leggings from rib eye and kobe beef boots, all USDA prime.
"It smells so good," said Mery Lopez, 26, a waitress-turned-model who bravely posed yesterday with the edible attire. "It's heavy, but not that much."
The kitchen crew stitched it all together using butcher's twine and accessorized the look with a necklace of marrow bones topped with a 32-ounce rib eye chapeau.
"It's a learning process and I think we're doing a pretty good job," said executive chef Oscar Martinez. "I'm not Oscar de la Renta when it comes to design."
After the suit was ready, the bovine-bedecked Lopez attracted curious stares from passersby, but, thankfully, no dogs.
The dress comes with a designer goody bag stuffed with filet mignon, chocolate sauce, kobe burgers and candy corn.
And the costume itself can actually be eaten, with cooks from the 142-year-old restaurant set to do the carving and offering recipe ideas.
"Wear it for an hour, have fun with it ... Then you might have enough meat for six months for your freezer," Sherry suggested. "So that the $100,000 is not that expensive."
Of course, he'd gladly sell it to Lady Gaga herself, helping the singer appear, he said, "Like a real piece of meat."
[email protected]
Photo credit: Old Homestead Steak House waitress Mery Lopez models the restaurant's $100,000 Lady Gaga costume, made of grade A prime cuts. Craig Warga for the NY Daily News
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