Gordon in the morning: Enter the executive fashion editor

Making an entrance this morning is a colleague of Gordon's new to No Rock, Erica Davies.

Who is Erica?

Executive Fashion Editor

I suspect that Erica is a fashion editor who has been told that she is an "executive" of some sort - which, we now understand, at News International means you cease to know anything about anything anyone else might be doing. Not, to be clear, someone who edits articles about executive fashion.

She's been wheeled in to provide a surprisingly brief piece about how some of Lady GaGa's key looks are... how shall we put this? Homages?

Actress Bette Midler, 65, lashed out after GaGa dressed as a mermaid while in a wheelchair at a gig in Sydney last week. She tweeted: "I've been doing singing mermaid in a wheelchair since 1980. You can keep the meat dress and firecracker tits - the mermaid's mine."

Eighties star Grace Jones, 63, also claimed GaGa had copied her.

She said: "I've seen some of the things she's worn that I've worn and that kind of p***es me off."

To be fair, Erica - or some hapless researcher - has done some gathering of photos which shows that, if it is a homage, there's a whole lot of homaging going on. Perhaps it's cover versions?

But, still, the meat dress is GaGa's own idea, right?

Not really, no.