Lady Gaga, Kid Rock among 2012 Headwear Hall of Fame inductees

Senior Features Writer

Sept. 29, 2011 2 PM PT

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Lady Gaga and Kid Rock are among the celebrities named to the Headwear Hall of Fame for 2012, an honor bestowed by the Headwear Assn., a trade group organized to promote the hat industry.

Other chapeau-wearing stars singled out for ‘frequently wearing hats and hav[ing] ... had a positive impact on the evolution and popularity of headwear fashions’ include Victoria Beckham, LL Cool J (who is hardly ever spotted without his signature Kangol cap) and posthumously inducted members Fred Astaire and Marlene Deitrich.

Past inductees include Aretha Franklin, Carlos Santana, Ne-Yo, Cameron Diaz, Gwen Stefani and Payne Stewart (2011); Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Jessica Parker, Brad Pitt , Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and Frank Sinatra (2010); and Johnny Depp, Madonna, Samuel L. Jackson, Vince Lombardi, Jackie Onassis and Princess Diana (2009).

Formal induction into the Headwear Hall of Fame is scheduled to take place at the group’s annual gala in New York on April 19, 2012.

Hats off to the winners!

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-- Adam Tschorn

Left photo: Lady Gaga. Credit: Ethan Miller / Getty Images for Clear Channel

Right photo: Kid Rock. Credit: Daniel Boczarski / Getty Images

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Adam Tschorn

Senior features writer Adam Tschorn is a former small-town newspaper editor, game-show question-and-answer man and fashion scribe who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007. He currently covers a wide range of pop-culture topics with a focus on cannabis culture. Holding a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in journalism, he feels perfectly suited to looking at things, asking “why?” and writing down the answers.