CosmoBiz Magazine January Issue 2020 | Page 16

Drag Queen Extravaganza How To Make & Dress Up For Drag One of the biggest hits on TV for the past 10 years has been Emmy-Award winning competition reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race, which expanded to UK in 2019. There is even a German TV show inspired by it, called Queen of Drag, starring Heidi Klum. Drag is associated with the camp style from the 1970s and is described as theatrical and extravagant. It’s a real mix between art and fashion. But what is the appeal? The everyday and the on-stage personas of a drag queen are so different that you begin to wonder how they achieve this amazing transformation. 16 C O S M O B I Z M A G A Z I N E