The drag queen Shea Couleé chose the fashion tech outfit she wore in her music video Collide to greet the contenders for the Drag Race Hall of Fame yesterday. At the end of the episode, Kylie Sonique Love was crowned All Stars for the season 6 of the spinoff show of the famous drag art contest.
By Ludmilla Intravaia
"I can't wait to welcome one of you to the All Stars Hall of Fame." It is in these terms that Shea Couleé left a message, yesterday, "from a far away galaxy", to the four finalists of the season 6 of the reality TV show RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Kylie Sonique Love, Eureka O 'Hara, Ginger Minj and Ra'Jah O'Hara.
Shea Couleé wearing a luminous robot outfit in RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 6, episode 12 "This is Our Country", aired on September 2, 2021 (@WOW)
The reigning All Stars queen, winner of the previous season of RuPaul's Drag Race spinoff contest featuring former contestants, appeared in a light-up outfit not unknown to her fans. This is, in fact, the one that Shea Couleé sports in the music video for her track Collide, released on June 12, 2020.
Shea Couleé, in the luminous robot outfit from her music video Collide, released on June 12, 2020 (photo: © Broderick Baumann)
“I wanted to create a fantasy about digital sex robots (…) It’s kind of Metropolis meets Westworld”, the American drag queen told US Vogue on October 30, 2020. Shea Couleé also took inspiration from the French designer Thierry Mugler, as well as Star Wars and its protocol droid C-3P0 to transform into this "high-fashion robot”, with a “futuristic vibe", as described by the American magazine.
Shea Couleé, in the luminous robot outfit from her music video Collide, released on June 12, 2020 (photo: © Broderick Baumann)
The look is composed of a black, red and silver chrome bodysuit, “with LED lights that run throughout it”, explains Shea Couleé : “The lights generate from the core of the suit, almost as if there’s this heartbeat". The silhouette is signed by Chicago-based designer Joshuan Aponte who regularly creates outfits for drag artists.
Shea Couleé, in the robot outfit from her music video Collide, released on June 12, 2020 (photo: © Broderick Baumann)
Discover the trailer of Collide, in the video below.
At the end of the sixth edition of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Shea Couleé passed the torch to transgender queen Kylie Sonique Love, new All Stars to join the Drag Race Hall of Fame. Watch an extract from the show below.
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