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The Brazilian invasion has begun, its glamorous figurehead the drag-queen-turned-pop-phenom Pabllo Vittar. While her gender-agnostic moniker, increasingly clocked by American pop, belies her extravagant, Barbarella-like presentation, gender soon becomes secondary to a talent as irresistible as Vittar’s.
Born Phabullo da Silva in Brazil’s northeast, Vittar cut a megawatt figure even as a young chorister in church—preempting religious or societal scorn with inborn resiliency: Her mantra, Vittar tells us via translator, is,I just keep going.
I took kung fu when I was young, and I [practiced so hard] that I broke my toes,” she recalls. “So my mother took me off the kung fu, and then I started doing ballet and jazz.” However arresting on the surface, Vittar’s highlighter-hued style—captured here by photographer Augusto Silva Alliegro—is deeply rooted. Citing anime and comics as formative to her visual persuasion, she brandishes
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