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As a teenager in college, Hana Quist has surpassed the “student” label. Throughout 2017, she is one of New York’s most sought-after queens in nightlife and has created an iconic series of portraits for her biological parents, drawing the attention of fashion and becoming a lover of everything Emerging designer. -optimal. Not surprisingly, this did not make Quist a long time recognized – her pink face, wild wig and luxurious corset, she found it easy (or remembered).
Philadelphia natives discovered and began privately trying to drag a teenager in her bedroom, quickly becoming famous among the city’s most prominent queens after she moved to Big Apple. Her early violin creations became essential after she shaped the heroine in nightlife, and she took her charisma to new heights, supplemented with flower-distorting dresses, satin-rabbit ears, and head The appearance of the Ministry to the toe Marie Antoinette would have cast aside
Now, turning her attention to a collection of essays, Quist breaks the barrier of dresses set up for all genders and genders, proving why she is now a true pioneer in fashion needs.
You are the protagonist of New York nightlife, but also a new fashion designer. How do you balance the two?
For me, fashion and nightlife go hand in hand. I joked that the Queen made me, but it is true. I learned a lot from the queen and the nightlife. This really affects and motivates my work. Nightlife is a way for me to play creatively and experimentally without “fashion” judgments, sometimes judgments are scary and resistance is more fun and open. My drag helps my fashion, and vice versa.
How do you find resistance for the first time?
I’ve always felt like a queen, but I never used “drag” to describe what I was doing. Since I was a kid, I like to dress up and play with my appearance. Like all other Millennium Herd Queen, I found the drag by dragging the game. I did not relate the television queen on television to what I did before because I did not consider myself a performer, and the drag-and-drop game was really big on the show. Through my passion for this show, I later found out about the club’s kids, and more of the wider world of resistance and nightlife. At that time I realized I was dragging and pulling, and that’s what I wanted to be.
Did you notice the rise of the female resistance queen?
A woman has been playing a role in nightlife and has been dragging without being called a “drag.” Now drag racing and social media, greater visibility means many different types of queens. I remember a few years ago began to drag down, there are very few “creatures / man-made / super” or anything you want to call the Queen, there are many. Before I moved to New York, I was so worried and worried about being a woman on the tow because I thought it was a big deal. I moved to New York and did not. Everyone is so accepted, kind, never really raised. As long as you look at, participate and contribute to your drag community, you are a queen.
Is this a fight for Hana Quist, a nightlife superstar like designer Hana Quist?
I like the world of drag and the world of fashion, but it is easy to be praised. In fashion, getting people to like what you’re doing and taking it seriously is hard. I am very lucky, because there are amazing opportunities dragged down. I was able to go to Vienna to find the ball of life. I was once photographed by an astonishing photographer. I had published my design and can work with many people in my respected fashion industry, but as long as you talk about dragging or nightlife Just stopping listening and respecting you is sad because nightlife is so important to fashion.
How long does it take to create a look from start to finish?
It takes a long time for my appearance – it usually takes 15-20 hours to finish and then into the hair and makeup another night. I will start from an idea, outlined, and then I will go to buy supplies and fabrics. I will take a few days to see. I always give myself an event of the night because seeing the whole look of hair, make-up and shoes really changed things and I want to be able to tweak things if I have to spend a lot of time.
There is a very luxurious, almost Victorian theme throughout your design.
I like cheap sexy corsets. I find inspirational costumes so historic, and I like to try out clothing, painting or books to show what I see and try to make it conform to my style – making it more modern. I like the idea of a queen, and as big and rich as possible.
Dragging has become the result of drag racing. What do you think about the landscape now?
This is bittersweet. On the one hand, the popularity of this show is helping people discover this amazing thing and making them famous queens, giving them a chance they would not have had. But it also creates a whole set of people who see the show as everything. If you only know dragging it out of the show, you miss so much hauling, nightlife and community history. At the end of the day, I just wanted to see the Queen succeed and did something amazing, so it was a wonderful thing if the show helped them do that.
Do you feel it is your responsibility to politicize your job?
I’ve been thinking lately about how cool cool gay women are with major designers and how many of the oddities I see in the fashion world are gay. Another thing I’ve always thought is that fashion is still classified as women’s and men’s, and these are outdated terms. Everything I designed was so feminine, but at the same time I did not want to say that I was a lady because I knew many women who were not the ones I wanted to wear. This is a very difficult area because I do not think the terms women’s or gender neutral apply to what I like.
