Apocalypse Now: Lady Gaga Wears Simple Black Dress in Public

Everyday, we sit and we wait for it. The mandatory news flash on what outlandish attire Lady Gaga wore today: what body parts she exposed, what odd prosthetics she attached to her body, what unnatural hair color she sported...the list goes on. But, zut alors, what is this? Her majesty of insanity arrived in New York wearing possibly the most shocking thing of all: a classic LBD (little black dress, for those not in the know), some killer Loubs and a sensible Louis Vuitton box bag. Um, jaw? Meet floor. After all her antics -- incubating in eggs on red carpets, mythical being alter-egos, dead cow meat as a fabric substitute, the simplicity of the silhouette, a pencil skirt and jacket combo from Yves Saint Laurent's resort collection -- all in black -- plus a belt that molded her into an hourglass figure that is a vision of Upper East Side propriety left us completely aghast. She looks fabulous and terribly, terribly sophisticated yet her confident bravado still ensured that she stood out from the crowd. Could we be seeing a new side of Gaga, or was this a momentary slip into reality, soon to be followed by more outrageous ridiculousness? We're not sure, but she's piqued our interest in a way that she hasn't in a long, long time.