Lady Gaga, "Ugly Duckling with Great Spook Appeal,

Lady Gaga considers herself a fashionable artist and doesn't like an influential American fashion writer saying she isn't. Gaga 'writes' back in 'V' mag. If you call Lady Gaga names expect her to fight, or in this case, write, back. The innovative singer, musician and songwriter is also a (self-appointed?) player in the fashion world. She's been praised and criticized for her approach to fashion and on Sept. 1, 2011, she threw some barbs at one of her most ardent fashion critics. In her column in 'V' magazine, the 'Born This Way' Gaga responded to New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn's many prose attacks on her. As fans of hers may expect, Lady Gaga is not one to hold back when she has the proverbial bee in her proverbial fashionable bonnet. The 54-year-old Horyn has repeatedly criticized Gaga's fashion choices and when writing on Gaga's Edge of Glory video in June of 2011, she said the former Stefani Germanotta looked "embalmed." In her 'On the Runway' blog in June of 2010 the acerbic Horyn went so far as to call Gaga an "ugly duckling with some spook appeal." Fighting words, no? It appears yes.