“Run for your life, kid!”

Barney’s in New York has announced that this year’s festive spectacular will feature a month-long holiday installation from the Empress of Weird, Lady Gaga.

Barney’s is a venerable downtown Manhattan department store world-famous for its festive decorations and store layouts around the holiday season. Barney’s basically perfected the Christmas Window – think Woolworths annual art-deco, tinsel, fishing line and bauble monstrosity times one thousand, and actually nice to look at.

This year, Barney’s is going in a… new direction. Gaga’s Workshop will feature designs from Mama Monster herself, along with a host of objects and accessories for sale created by designers such as Thierry Mugler and Nicola Formichetti. Unknown is whether Mama will be allowing her little monsters to sit on her lap and whisper their dearest Christmas wishes into her bedazzled ear, before one of her elves (dressed in red chantilly lace) leads them away and gives them a complimentary meat bracelet.

If you want to visit this nightmare before Christmas, but can’t shell out for a ticket to the Big Apple, the entire installation will have a digital outlet on the Barney’s website, so head there around November if you’re after some early Christmas fear.

Until then, here’s the brand-spanking-new Gaga video for ‘You and I’ off her Born This Way album- oh, and by “you and I” she means herself and herself. There’s making out. Might be a little NSFW. Call it an early Christmas present.

[Source:  PR Newswire]