Lady Gaga serves as cover girl and guest editor of V Magazine

Lady Gaga will add editor to her resume after she takes charge of V Magazine's upcoming January (16) issue.

The Born This Way star is known for her eccentric style and she'll be bringing her talents to the fashion publication as both the cover girl and guest editor of the new issue, and she's already recruited top photographers Nick Knight, Steven Klein and Inez and Vinoodh to shoot features for the mag.

Gaga tells V Magazine, "This issue of V is about all of these people coming together to express a passion for art and fashion, to really 'go there' to make a great statement and to change things."

"I feel like we all share an appetite for living a life of passion and creativity," she adds. "It's like we all found our immortality through art and fashion... we share that deep spiritual place. These are people who have kept and protected me over the years, because they wanted me to survive... that's part of the message of this issue: we have to carry each other through the decades and take care of one another and honor each other's work."

Gaga, who has been on the cover of V four times, concludes, "I am saying thank you to all these people for everything they've given me.. I want to make sure the world knows who they are... it's a guard of people... I call them my fashion guard!!"