Billboard Woman of the Year honoree Lady Gaga. Photo / AP
Billboard Woman of the Year honoree Lady Gaga. Photo / AP
One of pop's biggest names has gone gaga over an outfit by boutique Kiwi designer Kay Goss.
Chart-topping diva Lady Gaga dazzled on the red carpet on Friday when she arrived at the Billboard Women In Music awards lunch in New York decked out in a stunning cream bralet andfigure-hugging skirt created by the Auckland fashionista.
Gaga was there to accept Billboard's Woman of the Year award. Images of her parading in her New Zealand-made outfit have been beamed worldwide.
The pop queen paid tribute to the Kiwi designer on her Instagram account yesterday, posting: "Thank you K Goss for this killer power suit."
Goss last night told the Herald on Sunday she was "thrilled" at such high-profile exposure. The outfit is part of Goss' Spring and Summer collection. It caught the eye of Gaga's stylist at a fashion launch in the Big Apple in September.
"I knew Lady Gaga was considering it for the Billboard awards and it was a nice surprise to see her wearing it," Goss said. "She looks amazing and my agent rang me to tell me to expect to be very busy over the next few days.
"It is so nice to see your work worn by such a big celebrity. It is a big deal for me."
The skirt costs $1367 and the bralet a cool $349.98. Both are available online from Kaygoss.com or in-store from Zora Bell Boyd Jewellery in Ponsonby.
Singer-turned-actress Gaga revealed last year she was raped at the age of 19.
The day before receiving the Billboard award she expanded on the ordeal and revealed why she recorded the song Til It Happens to You with Diane Warren for The Hunting Ground, a documentary about campus rape.
"I didn't know how to think about it," Gaga, 29, told a discussion panel. "I didn't know how to accept it. I didn't know how to not blame myself or think it was my fault. It's something that really changed my life. It changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed my thoughts."
