RuPaul's Drag Race's Best High-Fashion References
The 5 Best High-Fashion References on "RuPaul’s Drag Race"
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In 1990, Vivienne Westwood made an iconic move with her now-legendary Portrait Collection. The show was inspired by François Boucher's 18th-century painting "Daphnis and Chloe, Shepherd Watching a Sleeping Shepherdess." Westwood took the painting and digitally printed it on corsets, however these pieces were rendered in lycra and polyester — allowing a new level of liberation for the wearer of the traditionally confining garment.
Westwood's 1990 runway sent supermodels giggling and kissing down the runway wearing ropes of peals and velvets chokers along with the modern, digitally printed corsets. The entire show was so beautiful and impactful that most vintage dealers consider it the Holy Grail of fashion finds, with corsets from the collection selling up to $10,000.