What Lady Gaga’s Meat Dress Looks Like Now

After Miley Cyrus’ many creatively skin-baring costume changes — and nip slip — at Sunday’s MTV VMAs, Lady Gaga’s meat ensemble from the 2010 awards show doesn’t seem quite so out there.

Of course, while it did cover up a fair amount of the pop star’s skin, the fleshy material of the dress, boots and purse designed by Franc Fernandez still was quite the shocker in its day. And surprisingly, it still exists, just in a slightly dehydrated, deeper red and less drapey form.

MTV reminded us this week that while Gaga is still the owner of one of her most famous outfits, she’s lent it to the traveling “Women Who Rock” exhibition from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The next place it will be on display? Cleveland, where it should stay for the foreseeable future.

The director of collections for the museum, Jun Francisco, explained to MTV that because it’s made of such a unique material, the dress was preserved like beef jerky and has to be transported in a climate-controlled truck. “So it’s taxidermied,” said Francisco. Now you know.