"Billboard announced today pop sensation Lady GaGa will be named its "Rising Star" at the 2009 Billboard Women In Music event, taking place on Oct. 2nd in New York City. The Billboard Rising Star Award rewards artists that have achieved a level of success and proven to have vast potential in the early stages of their career.
Lady GaGa is the undisputed break-out star of the year for many reasons, including the success of her debut album, "The Fame" (Streamline Records), which has spawned four Billboard Hot 100 hit singles like "Just Dance" and "Poker Face," both which reached No. 1 on the tally. "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" are also the Nos. 2 and 8 best-selling digital songs of all time, with 4.6 million and 4 million downloads, respectively.
GaGa recently became the third artist in the history of the Mainstream Top 40 Airplay chart to have three No. 1 singles from a debut album. "The Fame" is also the best-selling album from a debut artist for 2009, with 1,441,000 copies sold in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In addition to writing all the tracks on her album, Lady GaGa has previously written for Britney Spears, the Pussycat Dolls, and New Kids on the Block.
"Lady GaGa is one of those rare examples of a truly unique artist with mass appeal," says Bill Werde, Editorial Director of Billboard. "She has established herself as one of today's top songwriters, and the whole world is waiting to see what her next outrageous but brilliant move or style will be. It is that ongoing anticipation, combined with her success that makes her a rising star."
The Billboard Women in Music Event celebrates the most powerful and talented women in the music business, and is held in conjunction with the much-anticipated publication of Billboard's Women In Music Power Players List – recognizing the top female music executives who are leading the industry with their artistic and business vision.
Billboard will also honor Grammy Award-winning artist and pop culture icon Beyoncé with the coveted Billboard Woman of The Year Award at the event."
aaand the day of the ceremony. GAGA SPORTS A SEA-THROUGH BEETLE-WING DRESS! With real human hair and beetle wings imported from Tokyo! The designer of this masterpiece is Holly Russell.
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A perspective on the designer by Patricia, from http://gagadaily.com/fashion/.
"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”…"
On the red carpet, she had some clarifying to do.
During the ceremony a kid's chorus performs poker face. lol Kinda cute.
While accepting her award, she chocked up! Awww.
After receiving her award...
Yet another significant evening for Lady Gaga. <3 her.
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