Lady Gaga ditches top fashion labels for graduate designer

Her eccentric outfits trigger attention wherever she goes and she has relied on a number of globally acclaimed designers to fashion eye-catching numbers - one of her favourite labels being Alexander McQueen.

So one fashion student couldn't believe her luck when Lady Gaga opted for one of her designs.
Snapped at a press conference in Singapore last month the 25-year-old singer, who was promoting her album Born This Way, sported a nude coloured rubber dress by Birmingham fashion student Rebecca Short.

Snapped at a press conference in Singapore last month Lady Gaga sported a nude coloured rubber dress by Birmingham fashion student Rebecca Short

Gaga - who is notorious for her outlandish wardrobe choices - teamed the long-sleeved avant-garde design with a startling turquoise beehive, double rimmed sunglasses and white gloves.
Rebecca, 22, who tailored the dress for Graduate Fashion Week in London is now hoping that this exposure will lead to future commissions. 
It was while she was on a month-long trip to Mexico, Guatemala and Belize that she first discovered that Lady Gaga had picked her dress and pictures were flooding the internet.

Rebecca believes that avant-garde design attracted Lady Gaga who is known for her outlandish tastes

She said: 'I was getting all these messages from my friends telling me to look at Twitter as there was a picture on there. It was all so surreal but there it was.'
Gaga went on to post a photograph of her wearing the dress to her Twitpics and on her Facebook wall gaining more than 100,000 likes in less than a week along with dozens of comments, including 'gaga i love your style...go gagalicious!'
One of Gaga's most acclaimed stylists, Japanese born Nicola Formichetti has come up with some bizarre looks previously, one of the most outrageous being the 'meat dress' that she wore to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.

Fashion designer Rebecca Short

But Rebecca, who grew up near Sheffield was pleased with the way her neoprene dress had been styled.
She said: 'The stylist had made it look amazing. It is a very minimalistic dress. I had focused on shape and structure with experimental draping. 

'I think she chose it because it was stripped quite bare so could be styled however you want. She had styled it completely differently from how I had done it.'
Since graduating from Birmingham City University with a degree in fashion design Rebecca has landed a job with a boutique fashion label Suzannah. Her fashion hereos include Calvin Klein, Raff Simons and Jill Sander.
She added that the New Yorker - who is one of the best-selling artists worldwide with the estimated sale of 64million records - had returned the dress in impeccable condition. 'It is sample size but they haven't altered it at all.'
Rebecca was one of many budding designers who sent outfits to Lady Gaga's stylist in the hope that their creations would be chosen.
She said: 'We all went to Graduate Fashion Week at the end of term and took our designs there. Lady Gaga's stylist was there and she asked if she could borrow the dress. I knew she had a few designs so I didn't expect to hear anything else.'
Rebecca, who is now considering auctioning the dress, added: 'I am a big fan of Lady Gaga's style and thought she looked amazing in it. 
'And the stylist has said to keep in touch and send her any future designs so I am hoping it may lead to other things.'