A FASHION designer from Leamington has created a first class Lady Gaga-style dress - made from thousands of discarded train tickets.
Aleah Leigh has been designing dresses for two years and has already used recycled materials like crisp packets, playing cards and rubber gloves.
The 25-year-old self-trained designer has unveiled her latest fashion line - a flowing dress made out of 3,500 used train tickets.
Mum-of-two Aleah came up with the idea while travelling on a Chiltern train to London earlier this year.
Staff at Leamington station helped the 25-year-old, to collect the standard orange and white tickets.
She then stapled and Sellotaped them together to create a long dress complete with angel wings on the back and even a head-piece.
The finished dress resembles something mega-star Lady Gaga would wear – after the singer infamously turned up to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards a dress made of raw beef.
And Aleah admitted she was inspired by the American singer's style.
She said: "I love the colour of the tickets and thought they would be really interesting to use.
"It is made from approximately 3,500 used tickets to make the dress so I was really grateful of the help from the staff at Leamington station. I made it from just tickets and they are stapled together or Sellotaped.
"It took me about eight days to make and I worked on it every evening for that week and a bit.
"I definitely get inspiration from Lady Gaga. I would love to make dresses for her. I look at her clothes and think they are amazing. Her outfits are really crazy and that's what I like to do too."
Aleah has made it to the final round in the Midlands Fashion Awards 2013 in the 'emerging designers' category.
The theme for this year's carnival is eco fashion and Aleah plans to use the train ticket dress alongside her other creations.
Just the ticket - Bruja Estrella Howe models the dress made of train tickets designed and made by Leamington fashion designer Aleah Leigh. (s)
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Buy photos» Designer Aleah Leigh pictured with Bruja Estrella Howe modelling the train ticket dress. (s)
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