![]() Who are you following? You following Monet and Trixie, but not me? This is. ![]() It don't say follow back.īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: Well, let's see who you are following. SHAPIRO: Bob says, cool, let me follow you on Instagram, and then a horrific discovery - Mimi West is not following Bob the Drag Queen - high drama.īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: It don't say follow back. I love anything with feathers and stones. Mimi is a costume designer and eager to collab. SHAPIRO: Mimi West (ph) clocks him immediately. Not that he's subtle - he's tall, even without the black platform boots he's paired with a denim jumpsuit on this day.īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: Oh, thank you, baby. SHAPIRO: These days, professionals make Bob's outfits, and he gets recognized on the street even out of drag. SHAPIRO: Friends taught him that if he could sew fabric into a tube, then he could make pretty much anything.īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: If you just make a tube, you can make a catsuit. You know what I mean? And I know that if you want custom clothing and you can't afford it, then you'd better learn how to make it. SHAPIRO: And take us back to that Bob the Drag Queen.īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: I wanted custom clothes, but I couldn't afford any. SHAPIRO: Like, what year would you say was the first time you set foot in here? Shelves lined the walls from floor to ceiling with rolls of fabric in dizzying colors and patterns - sparkles, polka dots, animal prints, neon.īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: This is a store that I've shopped at - I don't want to overexaggerate, but a lot of times - dozens of times. SHAPIRO: In New York's garment district, we met up with Bob the Drag Queen at Spandex House. I mean, I once got, like, so much of this, like, blue crushed velvet, paisley - which sounds horrible, but it was actually really fierce. Not knowing what's inside, but it's fabric (inaudible).īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: And sometimes you get a great bag. SHAPIRO: It's like "Storage Wars," where you bid on the storage container. They would just bring out a bag, and you'd give them $10, and then. SHAPIRO: Just whatever happened to be in the bag?īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: You couldn't look in the bag first. Before all of that, Bob the Drag Queen was buying $10 bags full of fabric scraps, hoping to find something inside worth sewing into an outfit.īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: It was just the ends of the bolts. RUPAUL: America's next drag superstar is Bob the Drag Queen. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE") Before Bob won season eight of "RuPaul's Drag Race". (SOUNDBITE OF PODCAST, "SIBLING RIVALRY")īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: My name is Bob the Drag Queen.īOB AND MONET: And this is "Sibling Rivalry." ![]() Before he had nearly 3 million followers on TikTok or a hit podcast. Before Bob the Drag Queen starred on the HBO makeover show "We're Here".īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: This is my drag daughter.īOB THE DRAG QUEEN: Oh, yeah.
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