'RuPaul's Drag Race': The queens confuse couture with shoulder flair
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/03/01/rupauls-drag-race-season-3-episode-6/3/1/11
Tanner Stransky
The most hilarious things transpire on fashion-centric reality shows when the word "couture" enters the competitive mix. The main challenge on night's edition of RuPaul's Drag Race is the perfect example of the craziness the word inspires: The queens were solicited to create a couture, one-of-a-kind runway look based on one of eight different cakes, including pineapple upside down cake, chocolate lava cake, princess cake, and so on. Truly, it's a genius test, seeing as how ridiculously over-the-top pastries should provide the ample inspiration for just as over-the-top — and thus couture — fashions on the runway.
Alas, the queens confused the concept of couture with building a dress (or in the case of Stacy Layne Matthews, an ill-fitting pantsuit concoction?) that featured oversize shoulder flair. Just look at the screen grabs above for the evidence, with Stacy Layne Matthews, Carmen Carrera, and Shangela all adorning their shoulders with something big and ridiculous. Have you ever seen such divine couture in your life? Not.
