Jeremy Scott called me over to his studio. How did your grand appearance come together? It's crazy, all this stuff happened at one time! It's an amazing feeling, it's a great high. How are you feeling, all the way up there at the top of the world? You don't have to apologize, I'd love to go out that way, because I'm so happy for you, what a week, the VMAs, the Met Gala, the Kacey Musgraves film. "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. That’s the mark that I want to leave behind.Five months into her RuPaul's Drag Race reign, Symone is running with the big wigs. You can build through it and dictate what’s for you. You don’t have to let any of the negativity of the world or things around you dictate how your life is going to be. You can have anything you want, you just have to work for it and you can. My hope is for people to see that anything is possible if you want it bad enough. This was what I’d been dreaming of since I was a teenager so there couldn’t be half steppin’. That’s what I call it, “a moment of peace.” Because if I don’t, I suffer and then nothing’s as great as I know it can be. So I have to give myself a moment of peace. I really prioritize that because I noticed that as much as I do like working, if I allow myself to go too far in that without pausing I spiral and the art won’t be as good. I’ll make sure there’s always time to just have a second for me. When it comes to my own needs, I just have to have a moment to myself. Here Symone tells Vogue what happened after she had her big break on Season 13. Since Symone’s win in April 2021 she has worked with mega-star Rihanna, modeled in campaigns including Calvin Klein, and became a cover star for magazines Plastik and Out. The self-proclaimed “Ebony Enchantress” has not only captured hearts with brilliant messages of social justice, but also with exquisite taste in fashion from her own intentional POV. Her all-white gown embellished with the words “Say Their Names” in red, a powerful statement on police brutality, will always be remembered in Drag Race history. Symone’s drag is an ode to Blackness, telling stories of both beauty and tragedy within the Black community. Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Symone has wholly embraced being the reigning queen. How I Got Here offers (stylish) life lessons, in the artists’ own words. In conversation with Vogue, these editors, social media stars, and more reveal the unforgettable moment that would change their careers completely. In How I Got Here, Black and brown creatives explore how they worked their way to the top of the fashion industry.
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