Lady GaGa has posed completely natural and without make-up in a new cover shoot for Harper's Bazaar.The 'You and I' singer posed for a spread of candid photographs for the publication's October issue and discussed her iconic fashion sense in an interview which accompanied the pictures.
GaGa said of the toned-down shoot: "I don't really view it as 'natural'. I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
"Don't you think that what's on the cover of a magazine is quite artificial? There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?"
GaGa responded when asked if she ever feels exhausted by her outlandish presentation: "Sometimes I do. It all really depends on my mood for the day. But I think the perception that I 'put it on' every day is probably not true."
The musician recently appeared and performed at the MTV Video Music Awards as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone.(DIGITAL SPY)
