Just earlier in the week, she’d been a demure darling in a lilac Christian Siriano dress, complete with a tea cup. She kicked her bitchy pumps high for the gaggle of photographers screaming her name, giving a glimpse of leg from underneath her graffitied leather Coach trench. Symone seated in the front row at Carolina Herrera spring 2023.Īcross town, at the Coach show, Drag Race season ten winner Aquaria took a different approach to getting dressed. I don’t ever want to feel like I’m just putting something on that never works, and everyone can always tell!” I want to try new things, of course, but it always has to feel authentic, like it’s part of my story. “I don’t ever want to look like I’m ever trying too hard - I want it to feel effortless.
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With a blonde wig and a full face beat (managed on two hours of shut-eye werk takes work), she fit right in with the rest of the VIPs without sacrificing her unique style. The winning outfit for sitting front row at the Plaza Hotel, though, was a mini tweed set that matched the uptown mood of the morning.
She wore Herrera for most of them, a relationship she first forged when she shot a special issue of Interview magazine with the brand. There was the Herrera show, the premiere of Hillary Clinton’s new show Gutsy, performing (for Grace Jones!) at a party for Boy Smells, a gig for Bergdorf Goodman, the Vogue World fashion show, a handful of after-parties, and walking her first-ever runway for Luar. Symone did not get much sleep this fashion week. Symone and Wes Gordon at Carolina Herrera spring 2023. Drag is not just a queer thing, it’s a beautiful art.” “I think they’re just as important as a great, cool, up-and-coming actress. “What drag queens do is such an amazing form of art and, in a way, a designer’s dream because they’re a perfect muse to wear your clothes and really show them off,” said Christian Siriano, who regularly invites drag queens to sit front row at his shows. The girls are girling for fashion brands worldwide, and not only in the front rows: There was Bimini Bon Boulash strutting the Richard Quinn catwalk, Tayce vamping it up in a Jean Paul Gaultier fragrance campaign, Shea Coulée wearing custom Christopher John Rogers on the latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars (to say nothing of her history-making Valentino haute couture moment). It would have been unexpected to see a drag queen sitting front row at Carolina Herrera even just a few years ago, but these days, no respectable fashion week VIP section is complete without at least one queen involved.
Anyone who’s looking to fashion to broadcast their personality to their world is an icon in my books.” “We’re a house of glamour and beauty and an unapologetic embrace of fabulousness. “My vision for Herrera is that I can create an array of pieces on a rail that anyone can walk into the store and find that one item that makes you the superhero version of yourself,” Gordon said.
It’s the kind of transformational moment any designer would dream of being responsible for, which is why the brand’s creative director, Wes Gordon, invited Symone to sit front row at his spring 2023 fashion show.
Her whole posture changed: Her hips were popping, her long legs grew even longer in a pair of high-heeled sandals, and a voluminous sleeve floated in the air as she gave a few experimental waves to the mirror. But Symone arrived a few minutes later, zipped up into a super-short, Barbie-pink floral Carolina Herrera dress. She was all smiles and polite air kisses in a pair of baggy jeans and a T-shirt accessorized with a studded Valentino bag. Symone - the crowned winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 - showed up on time for her fitting at Carolina Herrera’s offices. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut Photos: Getty Images, CT Hedden, Leandro Justen
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