Katya: A Journey Into The Sanctum 😂 S4 E1 | Out of the Closet

do you enjoy the fashion part of drag why do i feel like every question you're asking me is just straight up reading me i mean i a lot i love fashion [Music] i love fashion my god it makes me get up in the morning good morning sunday morning hi everybody i'm katya from rupaul's drag race and we are in my studio here in beautifully sunny los angeles california i traveled around pretty much the entire country and i this was the only place that i thought i could live i thought i could live in san francisco but i can't the weather sucks and it's really expensive this is also very expensive but it's the best weather san diego wonderful weather boring as hell this is not my home i wanted to separate the living space from the drag space because i think two months into lockdown i was living in a total in the chaotic drag nightmare here is a closet sliding doors just like gwyneth paltrow i don't like to hold on to things too much i'm not a hoarder i'm sort of a mixture between sentimental and nostalgic and also just like uh no frills get it out of here one thing that i'll never ever get rid of you know there could be an earthquake who knows but like this is the latex outfit from all stars too i think it's probably like my most favorite thing i've ever worn and also my most uncomfortable outfit i've ever worn because when you sweat it like pools in the fabric and like every bead of sweat that emerges from your skin is trapped and so when you take off the garment there's usually like like a gallon or two of um your disgusting sweat just all over the floor drag is the opposite thing i should be doing with my body type i know i'm very hot sexy fly and beautiful shape wise it's just i sweat so much this is how i d-drag you know this is how i store stuff i come off stage i'm panting i'm on the verge of like a cardiac event and i rip off the sweat soaked wig and i tear off the sweat soaked spandex and i throw it into a bag and then it you know it collects mold in a corner until it needs to be used again that's like that's how i store and maintain drag this is like one of my favorite dresses ever this was by um marco monroe who was from the house avalon i just watched a little like featurette on him and the people at the house of avalon it was so cool you don't need to wear brass or a padding or anything it's super cool and comfortable it's also very chic this is all powder and sweat this is a kimchi kimberly chee um it's made out of um tinsel i guess one of the things i love about drag is how angry people get in fashion in general if you'll notice fashion criticism sartorial criticism is so unreasonable it's so muddled by trends it is so mired in like um classism none of that matters people go knives out to the neck because of a sheer scarf that doesn't belong anywhere near that lapel i love it the thing i'm wearing by the way this lovely fashion t-shirt was made by a fan hand sequined hand sequin very tedious work extremely tedious work not very rewarding i love this so much i wore this on the um the new the new season of uh it's like a beige dress but then wow look at the back really bad you know since the stay-at-home kind of lifestyle has really dominated our lives and our consciousnesses for the past year i've been mostly focused on front-facing outfits just look at me and don't worry about what's behind me which is a great kind of metaphor i try to outsource um designs or things in particular that i don't have the skill set for which is a lot dallas coulter she's the sleeper fashion saints of drag race where she doesn't get a lot of credit sometimes but she makes everybody's clothes you know incredible seamstress fast like fast and so good this there's been a pattern in my life when it comes to fashion and purchasing stuff every once in a while i'll i'll buy something that i cannot afford made out of leather for a reason i cannot understand at all 9 000 canadian dollars this is a pink leather suit for women it's beautiful it fits and when i was describing it the other day i used the words pink warm and creamy it was it was a lesson that i learned and i think i finally learned the lesson i'm not rich and i don't need to buy expensive things to make myself feel good i had guilt remorse and i'm never gonna do it again a lot of people sketch a lot of you know you'll see uh the great atelier have you know the uh valentino garavani yeah he'll you know the sketches and then the meticulous construction starting you know with all the right techniques and um i don't do that sometimes i just like pick the fabric that's the most shiny that won't break the needle i have in my sewing machine and i just i just start cutting i don't even measure which often does not work it frequently ends in uh what some people would describe as failure but it's fun for me this is a dress that i made recently i set out to make an ugly ugly dress and i think it actually came out kind of pretty and there's a fake pocket it's more of like a ledge like a fashion ledge some um drag race relevant historical memorabilia this is the sequin cape that i wore on the um finale of season seven rupaul's drag race so long ago it was inspired by the design of the black lodge from twin peaks my friend ray made it for me she did such a great job this is something else i probably won't get rid of um although you never know times do get tough and people get desperate watching myself on season seven was a little horrifying because i had thin villainous lips underdrawn lips i mean you know the trend now is like just inflatable like cartoon lips i had these like little that it's hard to be like i wore no makeup i wore no makeup i thought i was amy adams i thought it was kate bosworth rolling up to drag race like i thought i was kristin chenoweth i thought michelle pfeiffer was i thought that i was her i thought i was jessica lange i walked through that door like nicole kidman you need me to go on i was i thought i was a real woman i don't know but it was maybe the lighting or the lack of heat it was the the air conditioning went to my head i was like i just oh i don't need any eye makeup or lip liner or any wig volume if you're not embarrassed by your previous output then you're not making any progress if you don't ever look back and cringe maybe people are cringing right now so i i go kind of like high to low with the shoes some of them are very expensive like um louboutin shoes or alexander mcqueen or whatever but most of them are these like kind of middle-of-the-road clearance shoes that i just glue lots of on and it's so much fun and they look so great i'm gonna model this one for you it makes a statement without saying a damn thing on the other hand these are beautiful shoes it's really like a work of art they cost 500 and they are so uncomfortable doesn't even really just that doesn't even begin to describe the kind of agony the horror the just unbearable pain that these shoes cause your feet by even just standing up never mind walking walking is not an option this is a sit and shoe these are great so we're talking about fashion we're talking about comfort we're talking about mobility and um style this is a practical shoe season seven i was very intimidated first of all miss fame i hadn't seen a wig that cost more than fifty dollars you know what she did with her she attended to her hair pieces like a woman with attends to a newborn baby actually more care actually she would just rapid care swaddled it like the baby jesus like the baby jesus and and carefully laid it back in the um back in the thing put the tissue over it and then put the cover the box on it i was like stuff that would cost twelve hundred dollars and her garments was like what the i wore a pink sequined t-shirt dress that had all of the sequins on the the bottom back half rubbed off from my shoes on the runway it was so intimidating violet you know roll the tape probably the thing that i would need the most in drag if i were to like take one thing from a burning building it would um it would not be that not my ex-husband glenn no way uh it would be this the atomic bland uh trademark katya wig this is a a full banged uh mid-length wavy thing that is kind of my signature it's synthetic you know you can kind of uh you can just shove it in your pocket go through tsa nobody's gonna ask any questions and um i put it on and it becomes you know instantly caught you i'll show you with wigs and stuff i it's always a battle with me and myself so like i'm getting older yep and um the clock is ticking which means that a whimsical pigtail kind of style on one day you know maybe five years ago we made me look um whimsical now it just makes me look desperate and it's tough it's really tough because i don't have an easy face or body i'm for i'm in my 40s now it's like drag is a young girl's sport these days especially because of drag race and you know i i don't i don't begrudge the young girls for having clear skin you know when i was 20 i didn't have clear skin i didn't i was on accutane wigs so fun um this is a human hair wig i love human hair because it feels like i don't know there's just something human about it i will plan the most intricate incredible exhausting uncomfortable hot outfit at the very last second i will rip off the 400 wig and throw in that that little atomic bland and just hit it at the end of the day they don't want they don't want to see like they just want to see you know i'm also a psychic um as you can see here but um i really want to talk about that right now my favorite look from season seven would be the thing i lip synced in the little floral stewardess which didn't fit the theme by the way trixie loves to think that we yeah when the theme was rich getting on an airplane we were the help that that's what we trusted us i want to queerty this is an award for being gay i've been doing it for 38 years going well i'll be 42 next month but i was totally gay for 38 of those years and finally this orange company said that's right that's right oh and fans of mine will probably recognize a very familiar face tabitha my stepdaughter she just loves to chill here and her blue eyeshadow they say that the eyes are the nipples of the face bimini um and that's true especially with tabitha because she doesn't have breasts so she has to do all that lifting up here and to her left speaking of eyes it's cheryl c-h-e-r-y-l cheryl is a raccoon um who you know she died for her country so that she could be wearable forever by me and i love that you wish like you go back and be like oh just chill out chill out you're a cross-dresser it's just make a fun show that would be my advice to anybody you're just making a fun show i mean try hard you know and do the stuff but like a it's not all about you hello make a fun show put that bone in your mouth put the bone in your mouth make a fun show rupaul's drag race was hot way harder than i thought it was going to be for reasons i hadn't even imagined i honestly thought the only thing i was gonna have to worry about was sweating turns out that was the only thing i didn't have to worry about everything else was so much harder the second time it was a little bit easier it was way easier it was actually fun that time i have some incredible news i'm having a baby oh baby really yep this is art i'm an artist and this is my art all stars we were walking in there i knew through the grapevine like who's going to be there for the most part and then you know everybody there's no that whole establishment of the pecking order at the beginning of a regular season to view it fascinating to live it horrifying i was planning on being a single mom but then no you don't look at all fat in that dress then i met him and well you get the idea it was still a little intimidating for all-stars but i had some i had help by then i had a little bit of money so like i mean for example i had that late there were certain outfits i remember telling the girls i was like i hope i make it to this episode because that runway i'm gonna i'm gonna just don you you know like we would all say that to each other like we were all looking forward to our uh particular categories [Music] are you hungry come join me in the kitchen i myself am famished i don't know about you but i find that food is often really good to elevate the mood this is where it all happens i've got some wigs here i've got the marquee displaying my motivation as of late bimini bamboo lash she's incredible um so this is where i sit down um now i like to have all my makeup out not a stickler for organization this is probably as organized as it ever ever will be and if you notice today i'm not wearing any makeup right now i did do my eyebrows the thing about drag is tough because if you're during the day if you're like to be a boy or a man you'll often notice that there are things that you have to do to become a woman that kind of compromise your masculinity in a way and a perfect example of that is uh shaving off your eyebrows um when you shave off your eyebrows you have a tendency to look like a freak i shave off half of them it's like a desperate um attempt to kind of cling to some shred of uh recognizable masculinity during the day and then i take care of the rest with this little pen and then i just kind of like do that and draw these little hairs uh one by one with this little pen and it creates the illusion of a fuller brow and it and it works the thing i think it's so bizarre about drag race now the girls in their runway captions it's not closed captioning for the blind like we can see what you're wearing tell us why so there i am i'm working the runway i'm working it fierce in my red dress this fierce red dress comes down to the floor and before you know it i'm turning around whoa here i go to the left side of the stage and some hair that says fierce diva this fierce diva is working it to the other side of the stage and before you even know it i'm walking to the back this has been a production of red dress wearing fierce diva magic work slay fierce mama wow here i like to have my little wall of inspiration especially because doing your makeup can be kind of it gets tedious over time you need a little bit of like a you know why do i do this why do i do this um so i've got miss fame right here as sort of the makeup ideal and then i've got trixie as sort of the social nader and then um right here in the middle is um innocence lost i loved blouses i loved wearing a blouse polka dot blouse any kind of blouse and a lot of gel in the hair some crochet dolls from fans these are so cool this is from season seven also from season seven that is a great little reminder of um it's like taking the the bad and turning it into good because that was the outfit i wore when i thought i was going home it was the worst moment of my entire life the absolute worst moment i've ever had in my life and now it's the little doll that i can stare at when i get into drag and i don't have to remember how horrible it was or how bad i felt or how much pain i went through i don't have to do that i have a brief final thought i encourage people at home and everywhere else to consider the very real possibility that this is completely meaningless and that perhaps it's already happened or you know what i mean that like that time and you know think think about stuff get some perspective is what i'm trying to say oh my gosh look that's we're out of time thank you so much for coming uh this is what it means to be a drag queen today you know the reality is yeah it's pretty glamorous i love fashion so much thank you guys so much for visiting my closet it's been a ah this fashion journey has been one for the books mom

Channel: RuPaul's Drag Race

Views: 1,313,023

Keywords: vh1, drag queen, LGBT, Out Of The Closet, Queens Fashion, Queens Runway, Queens BTS, Queen Out Of The Closet, Out Of The Closet Series, katya, Katya Out Of The Closet, Katya Fashion, Katya Closet, Katya Looks, Katya Comedy, Trixie and Katya, S4, Episode 1, Katya Zamolodchikova Out Of The Closet, Katya Zamolodchikova OOTC, Katya Zamolodchikova Fashion, Katya Zamolodchikova House, Katya Zamolodchikova Interview, Katya Zamolodchikova OOTC Interview, Katya Zamolodchikova Comedy

Id: _rPANliRQoU

Length: 19min 7sec (1147 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 27 2021

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[u/ohh_fiddlesticks]

Ugh so glad she loves her latex look as much as most of us do

[u/bondfool]

I’m so used to her being a big ol’ goofball on Unhhh, and it’s really nice to hear her a little more serious and thoughtful about her drag.

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

She is 100% my favorite drag queen, this just confirms it

[u/Uralbear]

A journey into the santorum

[u/piroteknix]

Katya being a Bimini stan is relatable content

[u/Ventusguard]

I love her re-enactment of queens describing their runways, it was too good

[u/musicaldigger]

am i the only person that somehow has never known this show existed???

omg she has that certificate for World’s Chunkiest Ass

[u/No_Selection6677]

Seeing her style I'd imagine she doesn't really know much about fashion but then I remember her videos with Violet and how Violet talked about how knowledgeable Katya is about fashion. idk I love how she just marches to the beat of her own drum.