Lucky Office Visit: Rebecca Ferguson

4:00 PM, June 14 2012

By Gabrielle Hurwitz

On the phone, she sounds almost like a nervous teen, speaking in hushed tones and a thick Liverpudlian accent. So it's hard to believe that Rebecca Ferguson, the soft-spoken mother of two from England, is the same powerfully-piped Rebecca Ferguson who was runner-up on the British X-Factor.

Now with her debut album Heaven (which debuted at #3 on the UK charts) out in the States, everything is falling into place for the 26-year old singer, whose voice conjures a mix of Norah Jones, Aretha Franklin and Adele. “When I went to the X-Factor audition, I went with the idea that if it’s meant to be, it’ll be, and if it’s not, there’s something else waiting for me," she says. "But I do believe that this was meant to be.”

When it comes to dressing the part of a rising star, Ferguson insists on wearing what she loves and what makes her feel good—everything from sexy, body-conscious dresses with heels to retro vintage gems. And though she hasn’t always had the means to buy designer clothing, Ferguson has been cultivating her flirty-yet-quirky style since youth. “I used to go to the charity shops and get little vintage bits so I could put clothes together on a budget. You don’t need loads of money to look classy—if you’ve got a good eye for fashion, you can put things together.”

Click below for a slideshow that will show you just how to get Ferguson's brilliant high-low style.

“On the day of the shoot, they brought loads of vintage clothes and loads of really expensive clothes and people were like ‘Oh, we don’t know. We don’t know.’ And I saw the black and white ASOS jacket and was like, ‘Well, what about that one?’ And the stylist was like, ‘Oh, that’s not a particularly expensive one, but it looks good.’ So, in the end, we picked that.”