Now that all my costumes are at my home, I can reflect on the last 25 years of wearing them. This is my most prized costume, a piece Charlie Le Mindu made for a show he did in collaboration with Crazy Horse in Paris. Crazy Horse is a cabaret show of sexy dancers that all have the same body type â an idea of âperfectionâ, but Charlie turned them all into multi-boobed glorious hair creatures!
After the show run was completed, he told me that I inspired this work and gave me a one-of-a-kind costume from the show. It has four parts - a cone shaped, long blonde hair wig, long blonde hair wings, a silicone multi-boob bra, and a silicone boob thong. I love it for its playful critique on body image. I love using it performatively as an absurd reinvention of a strip tease in four parts.
You might know Charlieâs work from his recent collaboration with Doja Cat for Coachella. Her brilliant dancers were tearing it up in his long blond hair suits.
Note: Mentioning that Charlie was âinspired by meâ is not to show how great I am, or that people want to make unique pieces for me, but to show how we are inspired by each other. Through sharing we open up a community and find commonality and purpose.