"She said, 'Thank you! I'd get up, but I can't because of this dress, but thank you, you look great! ' That got me, that was my moment."īelow, Symone breaks down the many, many, many other moments that went into bringing her Met Gala dreams to life, including how she and Scott devised her 20-pound, metal-mesh dress, working with fellow Drag Race alum Gigi Goode on her hair, and her hilarious run-in with Rihanna. " ushered me over and I said, 'I'm so sorry to do this, but I just wanted to say how much I love you, and I watch you every day on The View,'" Symone recalls. Symone says she had the star-studded room "gasping" Monday night at the annual benefit, with Whoopi Goldberg and Rihanna among her admirers at the event. The inspiration was definitely the Moschino Barbie and Lil' Kim !"Īnd freak her fellow celebs, she did. For the hair, I wanted elements of Freaknik in it. "He put my brand and my aesthetic through his lens. "I wanted to feel glamorous, gorgeous, stunning, but I wanted to be me! I didn't want to feel like I was just wearing a dress, and elements of my culture in there," she tells EW of working with Jeremy Scott to conceive a dress that fused her love of drag with a vision of herself as a Moschino Barbie. No, literally, as the season 13 champion became the franchise's first reigning royal to attend the annual Met Gala, wearing a larger-than-life tribute to Lil' Kim sitting atop her head as she worked the carpet. At the time we were doing it, I just felt compelled…it is who I am.Five months into her RuPaul's Drag Race reign, Symone is running with the big wigs. I knew what I was doing, I knew how many people were watching, I knew the kind of people that watched, and I knew where these people where that watched the show. As I further got to know myself as a queen, it is something that is a cornerstone of my drag and it is something that is important to do, especially when you get on a show like RuPaul’s Drag Race that has millions of people watching every week. It is something I wanted to do as I progressed. S: It is something that I not necessarily have always done, but something that I have always found important. Have you always been someone who demonstrated their personal perspective on the world through their art? Whether it was portraying Harriet Tubman in the Snatch Game challenge or that extremely powerful white dress you wore on the runway that was a true call to social justice, your art consistently served as a vessel for your message. MC: While possibly a little girl from Arkansas, you have a truly broad world view. I am just a little girl from Arkansas, so for them to see my little ass twirlin’ around is insane (laughs)! Advertisement I am so blessed to have had it happen to me by multiple celebrities, and it is just insane I don’t even know how to explain it. For them to acknowledge it is not only just so insane, but it is so validating and is such a rare thing to happen. We are drag queens and we are just playing around on television. For them to repost it on their stories and to actually acknowledge that they have seen it, that is major. ![]() ![]() S: it is insane! Everyone watches the show, or someone’s stylist or makeup artist, it will get to them somehow. That is exactly what happened when both Ariana Grande and Janet Jackson showed you some love on their Insta-stories. A post shared by Symone Celebrities have been known to show some love to their favorite Drag Race contestants during the season, but it is very rare that two global superstars share actual Lip Sync For Your Life performances on their social media.
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