The Influence of Drag Race on Fashion

Carson: Drag style, I think is so fluid. It goes back and forth. Like when I worked at Ralph Lauren in the 90s, Ralph would come in and say, oh, I saw this kid on the street and he was wearing this. He was getting inspired by how kids were wearing stuff that he would see on the street. That was filtering into collections that he was designing. And I think drag is influencing fashion. You know, if there's bits and pieces of Fade Dunaway as mommy dearest in the 1970s in some kind of gown that they're wearing for a ball or a runway challenge, they've been influenced by pop culture. Then in turn