Please meet Holly Russell, Lady Magic Hands behind the blue awe.

Holly has just graduated from Manchester School of Art with a First Class Degree in Fashion Design and in July won the “Best of Manchester Fashion Award 2009″.

Her collection inspired in animals and minerals is actually called Animals & Minerals and incorporates real beetle-wings and human hair to mimic textures and surfaces found within the natural world.

I was very curious about the dress and Holly gave me all the details I wanted to know.

The name of the blue piece is The Blue Jewel Beetle and is made of Satinised Chiffon, real human hair and beetle-wings Holly imported from Tokyo. And there are over 1000 of them in the whole collection!

Can you imagine how incredibly laborious and time consuming has to be to manually sew each of the beetle-wings on the shoulders one by one? Only the dress took a couple of weeks to make!

Holly Russell‘s collection was shown at Graduate Fashion Week. The Blue Jewel Beetle was the finale piece and was styled with a taxidermy magpie on the models head.

The three words that come instantly to Holly’s mind when she hears “Lady Gaga style” is “Eccentric, Creative and Unapologetic”.

I was also wondering about her personal favourite Lady Gaga look.

Holly told me she loves “… this plastic bubble dress. It shows her willingness to have fun with fashion”…

She also sent me below photo of what she things is a perfect styling – “the crisp white jacket with the more crazy purple hair head-piece creates an intriguing look”.

Holly promised me to keep us posted about her next collections and projects. And we’ll be impatiently waiting.

Photos vía: Holly Russell