#Symone drag race harriet tubman tv

For this week’s runway challenge, the category was: Fascinating Fascinators. Symone made a powerful statement honoring Black Americans whose lives have been taken by police brutality on Friday night’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. “But at the same time, she wanted to tell the truth. We’re just saying, it do take nerve to do Harriet Tubman for Snatch Game. VH1 Light spoilers for RuPaul’s Drag Race ahead.

#Symone drag race harriet tubman tv

“The Black experience is hard enough without having to live out the pain of its loss on TV and she was very cautious of that,” Monroe says. For Symone, this wasn’t an easy idea to bring to life. It shows no matter how well dressed you are or well behaved, we are time after time, seen as a walking target”. At the time, the London designer said “this dress is extremely emotional to me – it screams my lived experience as a Black person. It was also a clear nod to Mowalola, who showed a white, bullet-hole dress as part of her SS20 Coming for Blood collection.

She wanted to keep it minimalistic and use imagery of the lily, which despite being a traditional funeral flower, is also a symbol of rebirth and rejuvenation of the soul”.

In the case of last week’s episode, which was filmed shortly after BLM protests had assembled around the world, “Symone had a distinct idea on concept. “Symone is always very clear on what she wants to look like, my job is to translate that into physical form”. I just help put the puzzle pieces together,” says Monroe, who started out as a costume designer for queer club nights. “You were black, you were beautiful, but above all things you were human,” she said in a moving IG video uploaded not long after the show had aired, having used her runway voiceover to remember the likes of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Trayvon Martin. On her head was a lily flower fascinator, with the words “Say Their Names” bejewelled across its back. In an ode to the Black Lives Matter movement, the queen walked hands-raised in a long white gown with crystal-embellished bullet holes, designed by Howie B. Following a surprise, but inspired, snatch game choice in the form of abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman, Symone’s fashion credentials broke new ground last weekend.