Lady Gaga on PORTER Magazine Cover

PORTER, The NET-A-PORTER Group's first independent consumer magazine featuring Lady Gaga as its latest cover star. Photographed by Inez & Vinoodh, Gaga appears as you have never seen her before, in a set of beautiful and tender images that reveal the young woman behind the global phenomenon. The 28 year old superstar is captured in her truest, most intimate form: sitting bare-faced at the makeup table; writing at the piano; in her grandmother's robe, the piece she wears to write in at home. In her most candid interview to date, Gaga tells PORTER how she has survived a decade of fame and infamy and shares her thoughts on love and intimacy. Lucy Yeomans, Editor-in-Chief, says: "It is often easy to forget that there is actually a young woman and an exceptional musician behind the wigs and the costumes, the hype and the theatrics. With these pictures, we wanted to reveal the woman behind the Lady, the artist behind the artifice. Indeed when I first saw Inez & Vinoodh's shot of Gaga wearing nothing but her grandmother’s vintage robe - the piece she often wears to write her music in - I just knew it had to be the cover. It felt authentic, personal and beautiful, and unlike any image I have seen of her before." Gaga leads PORTER's line-up of female storytellers - the theme of the Summer issue whose narratives are told throughout the magazine's 274 pages.