He made his first live appearance at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on August 28th, 2011.

The idea stuck in her head a few months until Jo Calderone returned as a character in the music video for ' Yoü and I' and is also featured on both single covers shot by Inez and Vinoodh on the same location. The film was shot in the very same room that it was exhibited in: a small space in the basement of the Bruton Street venue that only allows three people to view it at one time.Ī few weeks after the cover was printed, Nick said to Gaga: “Gaga, I believe Jo has to sing”. where they displayed ‘Elegant Mechanics’ a short film made with the live footage of the photo shoot featuring Jo Calderone. The following year, from April 15 to July 16 of 2011, the SHOWstudio Shop presented their exhibition named Practice to Deceive: Smoke & Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film. SHOWstudio Shop presented an exhibition named ' Inside/Out' (June 26 to August 14, 2010) featuring the urinal, aptly titled Armitage Shanks used as prop during the photo shoot. More clues were revealed when the editorial and interview by Jo-Ann Furniss with Jo was released on October 2010 inside the Vogue Hommes Japan volume 5. When these photos were released, it was rumored to have been Gaga, but official confirmation wasn't released until August 23rd, when a video of an interview with Semi Precious Weapons was posted. Shorthly after the shoot, SHOWstudio released one 'live, straight-up and unretouched' picture a day for a couple of days showcasing grease, grit and gentlemanly attire worn by this new model they found, Jo Calderone. A couple of days before the shoot, SHOWstudio announced the live streaming of stylist Nicola Formichetti with Nick Knight shooting a men’s fashion editorial for Vogue Hommes Japan: 'Expect chic, timeless suiting from Armani, Prada and Saint Laurent contrasted with industrial hardware and custom accessories by Japanese designers Yuima Nakazato, Yoshiko Creation Paris and Noritaka Tatehana'. Lady Gaga for V Magazine, # 74 - Winter 2011įrom that idea, they decided to do a men's fashion editorial for Autumn/Winter 2010 Vogue Hommes Japan which took place on Junder the working title ‘Elegant Mechanics’. After working together tirelessly and passionately for years, eating bovine hearts, throwing up on ourselves, giving birth to an alien nation and an AK-47, Nick and I began to wonder: how much exactly can we get away with? How can we remodel the model? In a culture that attempts to quantify beauty with a visual paradigm and almost mathematical standard, how can we fuck with the malleable minds of onlookers and shift the world’s perspective on what’s beautiful? I asked myself this question. Beginning as an invention of my mind, Jo Calderone was created with Nick Knight as a mischievous experiment.

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