Aug 28, 2010 09:12 GMT  ·  By

Jo Calderone may not be a name that rings too many bells with people but he happens to be Lady Gaga’s male alter ego – and he’s now featured in Vogue Hommes Japan in a stunning photospread and revealing interview.

Word that the singer had posed for an entire shoot as a man first broke in June this year – at the time, it was believed that she was only doing it for the shock factor, perhaps tired of stunning with her outlandish fashion sense.

Thanks to Nicola Formichetti, who styled Gaga for the shoot as Calderone, fans have now a bit more to go on: namely that Jo is actually interviewed by the iconic fashion magazine as if he were a real person, which leads to the assumption that Gaga has already started promoting her upcoming album.

Jo is a mechanic from Palermo, Sicily and he has big dreams of one day owning his own car shop. He met Gaga a while back and allowed himself to be convinced to have his picture taken.

Jo also believes he can make money off modeling – just enough to be able to see his dream come true and then he’ll probably retire. As Vogue, puts it, Jo Calderone is too cool to care.

“Mechanic for my dad’s business. This is the first time I’ve had my picture taken. Well, I always helped my dad at work, since I was a kid. I thought it would be fun to have my picture taken,” Calderone says in the interview.

As for his dreams for the future, he doesn’t want to be famous. “I’d love to own my own car shop, I have a bunch of my own ‘muscle’ cars. Maybe if I take some more pictures I can afford it,” he explains.

In another twist, Calderone says he met Gaga and it was her who convinced him he was beautiful and had no reason to be ashamed of having his picture taken. Gaga too is beautiful, he says.

“I met her at a shoot Nick Knight was doing. She’s [expletive] beautiful, and funny, and interesting. I was a little nervous for Nick to start shooting. She said, ‘Don’t be baby, you were “born this way”.’ I took her out after. The rest is private ;)” Calderone reveals.

The Vogues Hommes issue with Jo Calderon is out at newsstands on September 10, stylist Formichetti informs. It will feature even more portraits of the “mechanic” and, of course, the full interview – so keep an eye out for it.