Most fashion students keep their finished designs in a wardrobe, but Emily Crane gets hers out of the freezer.

Miss Crane, 22, who is studying fashion at Kingston University, is no ordinary designer - she is working on a range of edible clothes and jewellery.

She has even swapped ideas with the chefs at Heston Blumenthal's restaurant, the Fat Duck.

Her work will be on display at Vauxhall Fashion Scout on September 17, during London Fashion Week, where guests can touch and feel some of her samples during the show at Freemasons' Hall in Covent Garden.

While her fellow students finish their garments in Kingston's fashion studios, Miss Crane was working in a refrigerated trailer on her mother's driveway in Bath.

Her younger sister, Felicity, was her model, while her father put his degree in industrial art to good use by operating a bubble machine and acting as her assistant.

One of her first major pieces at Kingston was a dress grown from soap bubbles in her freezer.

She said: "The bubble dress took seven minutes to melt, so it felt really special to wear something that would only last for such a short time."

Speaking about her exchange of ideas with the Fat Duck chefs, she said: "It was fantastic. Once I'd explained what I was trying to do, pots and pans came flying out. Everyone chipped in, saying 'Try this', 'Taste this', and there was a frenzy of activity.

"People always ask me whether I did chemistry at A-level but, to be honest, I hated science at school. I'd have never dreamt this is what I'd be doing now."

This week pop sensation Lady Gaga courted controversy once more, this time wearing a dress, hat and boot combo reportedly made of raw meat at the MTV Video Music Awards.