I just know that when I wear my usual three piece suit and draw on a thin mustache, I don't feel like I'm in drag, I just feel like myself. But then I'll do characters (like A Night at the Roxbury or my used car salesman character, Don Bogman) that I don't necessarily feel like are drag either! So as you can see, the line isn't always clear. But for me personally, I tend to feel like I'm 'in full drag' if I'm wearing something that's an extreme departure from my normal looks, whether it's extreme over-the-top feminine, like Michele, or extreme over-the-top masculine, like when I dress up as Bono and contour on fake abs. MM: Just wondering, why would it have to be called drag? Because drag is like a costume?ĭE: Not that drag is necessarily a costume, because I think it can be many things for different people. I definitely felt like I was in full drag when I was dressed as Michele. Related | Beautiful People: Cardi B Is Still RealĭE: That was a super fun one. Like they put as much trendy stuff on themselves as possible without really understanding their body or who they really are. And I think right now with the overload of information, the problem is that people get very confused and I think some people don't really know how to dress anymore. And then movies had a lot more impact, especially on fashion, because information wasn't coming from everywhere at you. I think that what's so cool about at the time not having so much information is that you could actually create something fresh that people hadn't seen before. We didn't have computers, we didn't have, so it was a very, very different kind of process. MM: Well, you know it was very different than when we were doing Clueless 20 years ago. Like the big square rhinestone Gucci sunglasses or the hype beast revival of the Kurt Cobain mod glasses, that someone who wants to be 'on top' of trends can now do so in a relatively timely with fashion without having to buy the originals.

And it's crazy now the speed at which we see trends move from the runway to cheap knock offs on Amazon.

Most iconic example of today is probably Cardi B, like Gucci plus Fashion Nova. DE: I think people of my generation are so used to seeing the mixing of high and low fashion that we take it for granted.

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