The Week in Drag – the All Stars’ winning fashions, Morgan McMichaels serves up a Kylie parody, say “hola” to the queens of Drag Race Mexico and more

AuthorJune 25, 2023

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Hello, hello, hello! Welcome to another week of news and updates from the Drag Race universe. This week, our top five All Stars became a top four with a design challenge that paid tribute to former All Star champions.

We also welcomed a new set of queens into the international Drag Race family with the premiere of Drag Race Mexico. In addition, we have Ru-caps of last week’s acting challenge and Miss [insert title here] runway looks from some of your favorite Drag Race alums.

We’ve also got new music from some OG queens (including the first to ever wear the crown) and a new Beatdown from Willam that you are not going to want to miss. Strap in for fun…and let’s bring it to the runway!

This week on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, the queens were faced with another design challenge and brought some hall of fame-worthy looks to the runway. As the episode opens, the queens return to the werk room after sending Kahanna Montrese packing. La La is ecstatic to finally have her first (well-deserved) victory. Alexis is grateful that LaLa didn’t send her home (but the lipsticks of the other girls showed that they all picked Kahanna to sashay away.) The maxi challenge win lit a fire under LaLa and she’s hungry for more wins.

Speaking of hungry, the next day as the queens enter the werk room, Jimbo flings bologna all over the place (as Jimbo is wont to do.) It’s random and hilarious, just like Jimbo. Ru enters and tells the queens that for this week’s maxi challenge, they will be tasked with creating from-scratch looks that would fit in the Drag Race Hall of Fame, inspired by past winners. The Pit Crew brings in chests filled with feathers, fabrics and accessories that reflect the champions’ style. Since LaLa won last week, she gets to assign the trunks to her fellow competitors. She takes Shea Colueé for herself and assigns Kylie Sonique Love to Jessica, Trinity the Tuck to Alexis, Monét X Change to Kandy and Trixie Mattel to Jimbo.

The queens get to work on their looks and get a little help from the OG glamazon, Shannel from season one and the equally iconic Raven. I love seeing these two; they gave the queens some good advice. Jimbo reveals she has an issue with time management and Alexis, who was eliminated in her original season thanks to a design change, has upped her sewing game. Kandy and LaLa are (understandably) concerned. We are also treated to what I can only hope will be a new World of Wonder series, “Tuck Talk with Jimbo and Alexis.”

After lots of hot gluing, sewing and scrambling, the queens take to the runway for their winning looks. Side note; the guest judge this week is Brandon Boyd. To save you Googling, he is the lead singer of Incubus and he’s really cute. Kandy pays tribute to Monét in a black gown, serving “oil spill realness”. She even brings out a sponge as a nod to her inspiration. Jimbo knocks it out of the park again in a pastel, floral print bodysuit/facekini combo (with pearl eyes and smile) and a puffed sleeve pink latex cape. As much as I would have loved to see Jimbo’s take on Trixie’s iconic face, I do love the creativity of this look.

LaLa, who went through two other designs before the one she walked down the runway in, picked a great color (she was truly a tangerine dream with a great orange wig) but you could tell she was rushed, which is unfortunate – but it was a million times better than the infamous bag dress. Alexis was serving her version of Hello, Dolly in a gorgeous, figure-hugging purple gown with a tulle train. She looked positively exquisite. Jessica also killed in in an asymmetrical dress mixing sparkles and snake print. They’re all winners in my book.