Lady Gaga in the new V Magazine

Magazine: V Magazine

Published: September 2009

Issue: #61

Cover model: Lady Gaga

Styling by Nicola Formichetti

Photography by Mario Testino

Lady Gaga for the first time on a V cover, and its for the biggest september issue of your newsstands, V's #61. Cover and accompanying editorial were photographed by famed photographer Mario Testino and styled by Gaga's favorite stylist Nicola Formichetti.

"When the Marc Jacobs pink hooded coat and glasses came down the runway, I knew there was only one person I wanted to see in it: Lady Gaga. Growing up as a kid obsessed with new wave, I would cut up paper sunglasses and put them on to celebs’ faces on magazine covers. These plastic peel on and peel off glasses come in pink and blue and are actually based on the Marc Jacobs ones that came down the runway! There's no other celeb that has done more for the eyewear biz than Gaga. Giving people something tactile and collectible…I feel like a kid again peeling those glasses on and off the V cover." – V's editor-in-chief STEPHEN GAN

The magazine is already available on newsstands, coming in 2 different versions, with Gaga “wearing” removable electrostatic blue and pink Marc Jacobs glasses. Preview more of Gaga's cover story images under the cut: