Cellophane party dresses are not always appropriate.

Alternative-fashion designer Jennifer Henry of Flock Flock Flock knows this well. Luckily for her, there’s Lady Gaga. The pop star—known for donning dresses made of meat, bubbles and Kermit the Frogs—has increased the market for homemade outrageous outfits, and Henry has been happy to help fill that niche. The local designer has been selling more and more cellophane skirts and dresses through her Etsy site—mostly to people wearing them to Lady Gaga concerts. As a result, Henry has been told she should design clothes for Lady Gaga one too many times. “I always just laugh,” she says of the suggestion, “I go, ‘Suuuure. I’ll get right on that. I’ll just hop on Facebook and message Lady Gaga. Easy!’”

But it turns out, getting the musician and fashion icon to see one of Henry’s creations didn’t require social networking or any scheming at all—just the right heartwarming circumstances.

Four days before Lady Gaga’s Friday show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, a representative from the Make-A-Wish Foundation reached out to Henry to ask if she would be willing to make a cellophane party dress for a 12-year-old named Mikayla from Los Angeles whose wish was to meet Lady Gaga. Henry, no stranger to charity events, happily obliged and made the girl a dress using purple wrapping cellophane, clear packing tape, double stick tape, ribbon and tissue paper.

“She was super modest,” says Henry of Mikayla. “I think she was afraid of all the attention at first, but then you could kind of tell she was loving it.”

Good thing, because the dress garnered a lot of attention. According to Melissa Warren, the board chairwoman for Southern Nevada’s Make-A-Wish chapter who accompanied Mikayla and her family to the show, guests throughout the casino stopped the 12-year-old to compliment her dress, ask her where it came from and even pose for photos with her.

“I’m glad she got the experience of walking through people and getting the attention. It just brings the experience to another level,” says Henry. “I was really glad to be a part of this.”

For Mikayla, the love didn’t end there. In the bathroom, one woman noticed the Make-A-Wish pins her family were sporting and handed the tween $40 for merch. Other audience members also spoiled Mikayla with sodas and snacks during the concert.

After the performance, the family met Lady Gaga backstage. The pop star chatted with the family, posed for photos and gave a few gifts to the Mikayla, including a feather robe to match her cellophane dress, one of the bright yellow wigs she’d worn during the show, and a wig cap, which she promised would help Mikayla’s day-to-day wigs stay on better. The 12-year-old had lost all her hair during chemotherapy for her leukemia.

Gaga’s stylist and hairdresser complimented Mikayla on the dress and asked who’d made it. That word spread to Henry. “It was encouraging to know that when you’re doing something wild and wacky, other wild and wacky people will give you a high-five from a distance. It’s like, ‘Hey, it’s not so strange.’”