tv Fashion Babylon Deutsche Welle January 7, 2023 12:02pm-1:01pm CET
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more on our website, that's d w dot com. ah ah, oh, i think everything jenny fair, some are big. so much different culture between here and there. so challenging for everything. ah, some of this i think it was worth it for me to come to germany. i shut my, got my license to work as a swimming instructor here. and now i teach children who don't just with what's your story in take part, share it on info, migrant dot net. ah, ah, will you become a criminal? mm franklin, i already know who's with
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m m m m m m. and then, oh, what are you? oh, what am i? i'm an artist and an artist can be anything an artist wants to be. and so what i want to be is what i am. i had a boyfriend was and he was so mystified. he's like, i don't understand what you want to be like where you're going or what you want. and i said, i want to be famous in such a cool way. you don't know who i am and that's
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a great place to be where it's like you have power. people the right people know you, but not everybody knows you. so then you have like access and resources and the tools to do your work. but you don't have to deal with the book of fame because famous book is kind of amazing though nobody would sit next to her. so i went and i said, i, i'm gonna say, i'll sit here so that you know, you'd have to deal with people coming up and asking you have your picture taken. and she mentioned she, she mumbled something about madame tussaud's. she was like, yeah, madame tussaud's and i was like, i feel for you girl want to just explain a ritual of a fashion show. so there's a strategy about who sits where and who sees who is very court society, which i kind of love, that it's like we're in the 21st a church century and it's still about who sits where in the room in the
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i had a good see today, far, i one the court battle lou. oh, i found my way through fashioned through the work of re kirk who go and come they are so you know, come, they go. so it's not for everyone. it's up to us or me rather to decide to invest into a piece and actually what to where the piece. i always had a problem with my head. i've been logged off because you know, i was a black girl modeling and then every go was always skinny and flat, no bombs whatsoever. and so whenever i had a book king, i was always afraid that i would get 10. so because of my height and my size. so when i saw this piece of life, she saw all my years of struggle when my body armor showed us,
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it says a skinny lamb. and here she deformed here a beauty within the deform alexson. and she re question, what is good? and also, as you will see, if you walk out people think you're mad, you know, a 100 years ago they would have put me in the couple how she would have been also when a couple half what me a number. i'm sure this is i look, i don't know, i don't think people see drag queens as artists and i feel like i am an artist and i, i know i am an artist that i know i have the capability of doing a lot when i'll do performance is i'll go to a foreign country and do
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a show i control more than like a month in like maybe 3 years. is this coming live on the road? a man or address is always going to be a hard sell. but someone like me is way less likely to get financial compensation for any of my work or efforts or talents. you're like okay, well, is this holding me back or is this enabling me? you know, do i wanna kind of transition into some other realm or am i happy, you know, being recognized for what i'm doing? yeah, i mean, i really can't complain. it could be way worse. there's people out there who would kill to be in my position has to pull out there that don't have the privileges. i
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because sometimes i have the energy to fight some time. i don't have an energy to fight it and this is, i don't have too much of an able to to fight, you know, but sometimes i'm like really i'm going to get into sure. i'm going to get into trying to get it. but the last tuesday i was ready a long story like a half an hour in front of door. what's it? yeah, she didn't leave me in for like 20 minutes before the show started. i, she totally embarrassment. i had to face like a 100 for talk, a place you didn't get it. i'm like now, i know michelle and lee is as i was really fighting today. i should be a yuma about it because you get you what is he's in you. and once he's in you out, you know the special oh oh oh okay.
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the game. civic game with just kept me through this day. so i have to like i lose money, even more mega. i have to be very careful because i get to tell me what kind of back from haiti and growing up in new york. so my world was really my back, is it so i would spend hours and hours just buying magazines and job and i would live in this well, just to know our options. i mean,
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beautiful that is oh, i love to hang. right. yeah, yeah, that's yeah. so what is this? why? i love it. yaki, oh, my god, it's amazing. i somebody. oh my god, it's amazing. this is what he wanted was a gps. i'm, they quoted with me because i met, you know, all of that, but i know you were going somewhere. i would like to make a problem with
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was like a small kid in georgia. 6789 years old. 1979. i always wanted to live in america. i don't know why my parents would ask me what to do when you, what do you, what do you want to do when you grow up? and i was like, i want to live in so this whole chapter is going back to my primary desires. and what they would ask you like, what do you want to do? and i was like, i want to where it's, let's see though, i want to live in paris and i want to go to studio 54. and my parents were like, we cannot, you cannot before 9 years old and i was like, i swear to god, if you let me go to, if you take me to studio before they will let me know. i feel like i finally got video for finally got to parents finally work.
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looking like i'm successful and or it would be successful in the illusion is exhausting. especially. i mean, what's tough is like, i love the fantasy, but sometimes i'm the fantasy takes tall now. i mean is that what is it like? i love dressing up and being expressive and you know, having fun. but sometimes i don't feel like out. and sometimes you just don't feel like doing it and you have to do it. or do you have to play the part you have to do the show you have to do the booking. really i'm tired. i'm run down and broke. and i'm only
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unless ok ah, results. it's just a great place to be sad. like at that. tell again sadness, melancholy because it's still a little stressed out by storage space bill is due with all my belongings and they threatened to throw everything out yesterday. i'm almost going to let everything go, but i think it's a bad idea. i've got to start hanging on to a
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fun friday for yeah. okay. i have to, i didn't know where did we drop the stuff so funny to jump as close to the show. it doesn't start anyway for the shuttle bus. get there. yeah. okay. i'm just gonna do anything i can do. you were with violet. i remember which kinda thing that was my god. what about the time that the model went down the wrong? yes and went down the wrong way. yeah. and couldn't get around the light. yeah. they couldn't get around. oh my god, that was like a runway disaster. i felt so bad for that model to get some interesting somehow. because so i love the invite. the craziest was
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the 1st time i went. we file it, we didn't carrier invite. yeah, she's a full drag. we got to the front, they wouldn't let it. everybody was like, walking past this in violet was so credit fall as it was like a whole illusion like that moment when it take you go from like start a cloud. feel like i'm a star push. i'm a cloud. oh my girl. yeah. it was rough. was that girl vehicle gun again going to see to be a potential with
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. i'm going to announce that next wednesday, the picture shows in paris. i want him to be athletic, healthy, happy and fashionable. not as sexy but not gay, gay, gay, gay. if i fail, i've made a beautiful body of work about politics, or maybe i'll shift the narrative of what's been discussed, or maybe just maybe i, when i the way the worst case scenario isn't bad. it's very similar to the way i started working in music and entertainment, many called but i was doing ridiculous combining performance art, music and fashion. it became status quo and i was part of a cultural shift. this feels the same. i want to make a t shirt with i'm on a budget, a typo, traditional 5th. so to jump on this on contract with us and set up this one is do they move plays on tag? oh, is it a q like ceiling? daisy tells you mean?
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oh, wait a can you see that you know what it is? you have to read the whole word and it will be other mom to know the other, the other half. so the mug is best shirt, a 2nd best. yep, it's good. i'm just excited to walk. go to a honestly it. yesterday it was revealed that this is the last go th show ever. so i think everyone's kind of gagged. i'm guy. it's going to be the last go to show 1020 years. i'll be 47. i'll be a case he's age. i don't,
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i can't imagine being that old. i definitely will not be doing drug. i don't even the, i'll be doing drug in 3 years. i think it's also a bit more graceful to bow out when you're in. you're probably like at the height of your or like i've always loved the story. i mean, the italian pop singer who disappeared i went to go and say it's going to do now. i'm very curious. picking up retiring. i i, i, i, i, i, i
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mega guy. i saw this as green. send this done to rhonda i. c a, it's nothing that i went and bought just to make it to the shows, you know, i can go to the shop and said, i'm going to buy this and go to paris and get an image and show up at com that also with the major lot which we see today at the end of the day, i know it's just express what i want to express. i with i up with branches industry back with the guy the guys in the picture story. i didn't say anything.
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1st of all i walked in and he doesn't even introduce himself properly. or you tristan like, i don't know who you are. and then he started calling me violette, that's not my name. the look as good, they just, they're like we didn't have your measurements in like i could have given you my measurement or they're going to read, make it because it doesn't fit at all. they made it way too little. it's cute. i think it's hard to see because it doesn't. it looks bad because it's too small. it doesn't matter. really. i just i've been in job for since 8 am. it's 10. 103014 hours a
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a, a before a week or so. okay. i have a friend, like just a friend and just for sex. so he's a kind of polish pupil. yeah. authority edition politician. yeah. so last time we are the sex. i need give you a lot of track. i'm here to coach me. so to make me become quite a forever what he did is he made this video and then he threatened to leak the video like posted to facebook or send it to his family. and he says that if his family finds out that if he's gay or if it goes public, they'll kill advisor who are running running from the country right now. yeah. just
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running from the country right now. you made the right choice. we met at the bath house. no bay. coffee is reading a. the spooner 2020 nike. because i collaged my head on. are those my legs? no. can you believe it or do you believe it from going to the t shirts store to do a test? dreams come true sometimes maybe i hope so. i have a briley old friend and now he's one creative directors. nike headquarters in portland. he was like, i can make a look for you. i mean,
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the email gets me going to like, we're still doing the research, but are pretty confident we can make one of each of these apparel items for you have a look. please keep this confidential until we go live. i love confidentiality . the images red convertible jetting up into the sparkling blue summer sky flanked by motorcycles. red blue man straddled hood with his arms held high and confetti raining over him like a nascar winner. this is the split or 2020 motorcade and the crown jewel in case you splinters political theme to work this summer, which includes film photography, public speaking, a gallery show, and merchandise imagining it's possible to have a queer presidential nominee feels like progress. imagining seems to make it so imagining seems to make it my dream right now. my dream right now is that sally thing, or who runs folk dot com,
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gets excited about me doing the rainbow flag. she goes to and she says like, hey anna, you really should have katie ball because anna went to or tells all the brands who sitting at their table. i'm not an anna radar. but if sally went to her and was like, hey, and i really think this year, world pride, blah blah, casey spoon or linda. no. you should have him set a product. then i think mute, shaw could come up with a cool camp. i don't know, maybe i don't even do presidential. i just do like some incredible dress then nike sees it and they're like okay, this is cool. let's make a capsule collection that next summer's really the summer i need this is just my warmest summer. this isn't the big summer. thanks for giving. yes, 60 refugee. i think i have a refugee fat and sugar a time with you. have you ever been to a party like us? no, i want to go there. have never been to a party like that. no, that's why i'm for that guy. i will see it. i have to. oh girl,
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you came to the right place. feel like i know you just escape escape he just the fe . yeah. your dad with god. mason this but he said so disappointed. data dot heartbreak emoji. i said, disappointed is an understatement. i paid for my flights in hotels, works for free for social media content to promote the show itself. and then while i'm sitting at a dinner for the brand, i get an e mail counseling me. i never felt more like a disposable and used prop that all being said, i know everyone is under immense pressure and stress and i wish you all the best. cent. yeah, they canceled me at the dinner after i had gotten the coffee with my images on their social media that i did for free, promoting them exit completely, been taken advantage of. and bully disrespected us. as an artist goes,
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he has readily with me forever. i mean course that i i, i don't think so. i don't know. a part of me was to really be like, i can't believe you have the gall. this is the bill for my hotel. this is the bill for my flight. i can't let myself in the mirror and be treated like this and not say something. not that way and quarter. no, i get you approved. now everyone's like hearing it. well, no, not at all. i. we've never bought his 50 years law. so of course, he's concerned about his show what she should be, you're going to be kind of like talking about like hiring it doesn't, you know much as it's gonna be, you know, of course, i mean i, you know, let me know if you decide you're going to go whoa,
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ah, the fashion week is the best to be and you know, so we can visit the kids fully. if you need to do, it has been cancelled and moved to the i'll call people called the decision to postpone this year's fashion week was made with a heavy heart, georgia. i'm an excuse me called of her so she's didn't. emma jr. late wanted you to what she'll call you, she'll give it to me. she can relate to what he says on the medical michelle, you can, if you do cleaning, they did ups, you should have a deadline funding bud computer or the company guess job to show quasi home because he did or more don't t a in both.
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