The US pop-star name-checked Sorcha Ó Raghallaigh when she appeared on the show last week, telling Graham Norton she had worn the flamboyant dress especially for him.
“It’s a young Irish designer named Sorcha Ó Raghallaigh,” she told Norton, to enthusiastic whoops from the live audience.
Lady Gaga (26) has already worn a design of Ó Raghallaigh (26), who graduated from London’s first school for fashion Central St Martins last June. Her veiled vehicle, one of three outfits Lady Gaga wore on the show, was not her first encounter with fashion’s favourite pop star.
She also designed a black PVC dress that appeared in the opening sequence of the video of Born This Way .
Ó Raghallaigh’s relationship with pop’s first lady was sealed when Anna Trevelyan, assistant to Nicola Formichetti, her stylist and the man responsible for her most extreme outfits – including that meat dress – scouted the Irish designer at her graduate show.
Trevelyan now acts as a mentor to Ó Raghallaigh, offering advice and guidance and a route to high fashion editorial work. Her garments have already graced the glossy pages of Italian Vogue, Vogue Nippon and Dazed and Confused.