Helllllllllo Girls- Our brand new 17 harlots!
Here you stand, with mighty shoes to fill!
(but small sloths because Oadira weighs 6lbs in heels)
Anyway this season, we've been called to main stage of them all,
the silver screen itself as we take through the hihs and lows of Hollywood!
Each week, we will take on a different genre of film with a specially designed challenge to match each one. Take nothing for granted and think outside the box or you'll find yourself on the cutting room floor.
Ready for your closeup? LETS GO!
Where better to start then at the behinning! So this week, we will start in the good old silent movie era and to test you girls on the basics of delivering quality drag, this challenge will test your on your runway. To mirror the times of silent movies, i want a look made of fashion of any decade between 1890-1930!
You can choose the decade yourself, the more daring and more creative the better! And this is importantm, your efforts here will be combined with that on you entrance to give us this weeks runway! So go big, go bold, but do it...in silence!
48 hours. Oh and if you come out of this looking like an unpaid extra, get ya lips around this!
I am serving you Miss Josephine Baker realness, inspired by one of the worlds first, and arguably one of the most tragic, vlacktresses, who was either type cast as a mammy or slave, or sexualised whilst being made out to be some form of ape (early bestiality/fetishism?). Only in Europe, and more ironically turn of the century Paris, did she truly make her mark...and had a bit of Frida Kahlo on the way because hell why not!
CF: Wot wot! I'm a 1900s era Leftenant in the British Army. Great Britain is at the height of its power, and I'm ready to help claim Africa for the Queen! I'm wearing not one, but TWO monocles! Why? Because I can! I'm also wearing a leopard pelt, again because I can! Who's going to stop me? Africans? Poppycock!
=Charity B. Runway=
People always ask me; Charity, what does the B stand for? Well, right now it stands for Baby doll. The Victorian era lasted from the mid 1800s until Queen Victoria's death in 1901. During this time when a child died, Victorian mourning dolls would be made to look like the dead children and kept for sentimental value. So I guess you could say I'm serving dead baby realness, yes gawd *tongue pop*. Rest in peace to all the little babies that never made it to the 20th century.
while all of these other bitches are in the west, here in Asia we have a different story to tell.
Circa 1900 - The Japanese Empire is still alive and thriving, just before the first world war an empress lost her 7th to be husband, JUST before they could get married, he never showed up. people suspect he was taken to prepare to lead the war. he was the only one of the 7 she truly cared about. he was rich AND above average. she cried days and nights untill she died.. now she haunts the large cucumber fields in japan because they remind her of her husband.. tragic
Burn the patriarchy to the ground. With flames to ashes, "I do" will one day mean partnership into something equal and with that such embrace. Beauty and elegance I bring, but this runway needs some reality.
The sad truth is women barely had rights in this time. To name a few, barely an education, finally able to vote, no ability to get a credit card without it being in their husbands name.
Xella is wearing a old fashioned lingerie with a japenese look as well. Showing that anyone with any look can be sexy as well as any time period. Its time that we show 1900s women could be sexy and strong
