“Dolly is the ultimate drag queen out of us all,” says the London-based drag queen and professional “transformer.”
It was just a few weeks ago that Stone embarked on her journey to Dolly in collaboration with Balenciaga. While the fashion house got to work on her fashion look — including a glittery silver wrap dress, matching crystal boots, and as Stone puts it, an “obnoxiously large purse” — she made a game plan for executing her shape-shift into Parton. “It’s been madness,” admits Stone, “but I wanted to go into this doing it as accurately as possible.
Of course to recreate Parton’s famously ample bosom, generous breast prosthetics were a vital part of the equation. “I’m six-feet tall, so trying to find breasts that are not only large, but large enough to give my proportions the right volume was a challenge, but we landed on a double G,” she explains. “The breasts are all silicone and filled with liquid to give them the movement of real breasts.
, while she did her own make-up including indigo blue and ruby red lids, stacks of false lashes, over-lined dusty pink lips, and the beauty mark on the chin. Of course, Parton’s extra-long, hit-making talons, which spelled out “Dollywood” were also in play.Stone’s admiration of Parton goes far beyond skin-deep.
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