As radiant as the piece is, it’s rooted in the darkest corners of its conceiver’s subconscious.
How’sthatfor roaring back at past trauma?
Where is the look now?
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The scrubbers the queen ultimately used became the most iconic piece of sponge art sinceMr.
“They’re trying to harness the power!”
“It’s campy, and drag queens have the ability to laugh at ourselves!”
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“She’s on the way to burn down a building.
She’s on the way to fire 1,400 people in her company with no emotion!”
she explains of the character: a queer East German named Magritte.
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“It’s a powerful look, and I associate power with lesbians!”
Where is the look now?
“I have the jacket, but I lost the pants.
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It’s a tragedy, considering it was vintage.
And it’s not even mine!
But, I might find something similar to do a 2.0 version of this!”
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If that was going to be my only episode, I wanted to go out with a bang."
Where is the look now?
“Everything I wore is completely categorized and in storage.
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Not only am I D-list-reality-star-of-yesteryear famous, I have anAndy Warholic-like obsession with fame.
“A reveal should be unexpected and clever.
When you come out in a giant loofah, we know you’re going to take it off.
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If they came out with a giant loofah and never took it off, that would be shocking!”
“Looking back, I realize it’s ridiculous.
I was so game-faced because it was the first episode.
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I was going to show these bitches who they’re f—ing with,” she says.
“I was so confident and trying to show a good poker face.Thatwas totally real.”
Where is the look now?
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“I was just looking at it.
My assistant was trying the hat on the other day and posted a video wearing it.
I’m holding onto it for some sort of retrospective in the drag museum or something!”
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“I wanted to honor that [season 3] moment and give it a little upgrade!”
That upgrade included learning “how to do makeup,” Shangela jokes of her early-season aesthetic.
“Can somebody call FedEx, Kinko’s, Amazon Prime…
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I don’t care!
Iwillshow up in a box!”
“I thought about romance, pride, anger.
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Roses conjure all of that.
Still, that wig was coming off, one way or the other.
“I do not like to step on stage and just improvise.
A song tells me a story and I want to prepare that to share with the audience.
I prepared conceptual numbers to those two songs.
Where is the look now?
The dress is in a garment bag in my closet…My body shape has changed a lot.
RuPaul’s facekini (Season 10)
“Maybe that was me under that facekini.
Maybe it wasn’t,” RuPaul cryptically tells EW.
“I’m saving the true story for a future crime podcast.”
I mean, a bucket is floating over my head!”
Drag represented color and fashion and art to so many people,” Raja observes.
Where is the look now?
“I don’t even know where it’s at!
It was actually taken from me afterDrag Race.
The day after it was announced that I won, it was displayed in Planet Hollywood in Times Square.
Or they probably threw it out.
It was never returned to me!
I would love it back.
It’s sentimental to me and I want it back!”
“But the outfit made everything sadder.
That’s drag!”
