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- We're the queens of Season 16,
if you haven't noted.
- 16.
- And where are we going today?
- We're going all around Manhattan to, you know,
see the people of New York.
- Honey, join us and Cosmopolitan
as we take you around the sights.
- And it's gonna be a good time too, baby.
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- That is the Times Square billboard
for RuPaul's Drag Race season 16,
which is crazy.
I'm on that.
- We are in Times Square.
We are celebrating starting RuPaul's Drag Race season 16.
My name is Hershii LiqCour -Jete.
Everybody's been staring at us since we,
there's, it's a lot of people here
and everybody's looking at us,
so I guess that's a great thing.
I'm from St. Louis, Missouri,
but I live in Los Angeles, California now, LA girls.
- My name is Amanda Tori Meating.
I've been doing drag
for somewhere in between
three and five years,
but you don't need to know specifics.
The most iconic spot in New York City,
My local FedEx,
I love to ship packages.
Our group was very close.
We definitely had like a very instantaneous chemistry
and we're also close now.
Such good sisters.
Hi, how are you?
- [Speaker] You know.
- You look so pretty.
- Hi, it's me, Geneva, (speaking Spanish) Karr
I've been doing drag for almost 12 years
in a couple of weeks.
I'm originally from Tamaulipas, Mexico
but I live in Brownsville, Texas.
Oh my God. Right now
we are on top of a bus. The wind's blowing in my hair,
making me look glamorous and gorgeous.
I'm a Leo, so I love attention,
so I love tourists
and people are like, oh my God, Hi.
No pictures yet.
Well, I'll take one. (laughs)
Next question.
Oh my God, all the girls are super loud.
They're super wild.
I guess. Me too, I guess
- Who was the most chaotic?
A little bit of everybody
- Plane Jane.
She's a character
And she have many characters.
- Dawn,
- Nymphia.
- Nymphia. - I think you're talking to
one of the chaotic queens
Right now.
- Probably Amanda Tori Meating.
We should probably get her seen by a doctor.
- I think an argument could be made from me
being among the more chaotic.
- I think it's me.
Oh no.
- My sister, Morphine.
There's probably 13 chaotic personalities out of 14.
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- We are at the Metropolitan Museum
at the Women, Dressing Women Fashion exhibit
and it is spectacular.
My name is Plane Jane.
I'm from Boston, Massachusetts.
I've been doing drag for about five and a half years.
My favorite moment from this season of this show
was standing on the main stage for the first time
and getting critiqued by Mama Ru.
You know, I would love to see Mama Ru again,
put her contact in my phone and be best friends.
The designer that inspired my look today is Donna Karen.
I saw this look walking down the runway
and something just clicked
when I saw this disheveled,
frumpy looking woman walk out with a massive dog.
I knew that this was the one.
My name is Morphine Love Dion,
and I'm just gagged with emotions right now.
I'm like, oh,
like we're here.
I have been doing drag for seven years.
I'm from Miami, Florida.
My look is inspired by Alexander McQueen
and it's also inspired by Lady Gaga
who wore it as well.
Paws up.
Ooh.
My favorite moment from this season would have to be
walking in for the first time ever
and meeting everybody.
There's no other feeling in the season than that,
like just getting to know everybody
and the absolute immediate shade.
- My name is Sapphira Cristal.
I've been doing drag for 14 years.
I'm originally from Houston, Texas,
but I reside in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
My favorite moment from this season of RuPaul's Drag Race
was meeting RuPaul.
She is the legend.
She is all of our mothers.
She is the queen of drag.
Just being able to be in the presence of someone
who has tapped into their full potential
was quite amazing.
- My name is Plasma.
I've been doing drag
for a little over three years.
I'm from Northeast Texas, a town called Mount Pleasant.
This is a tribute to Marcel Chaumont.
I don't know if this garment ever existed,
but I saw a sketch of hers from 1948
and this one really spoke to me
because I had never seen a high neck,
sort of like a turtleneck
evening wear piece,
a giant tool skirt,
and it just, I fell in love with it immediately.
And I love like the mid-century aesthetic.
I mean, I'm an old Hollywood girl,
so I love the the nipped waist and the huge dramatic skirt.
I think my favorite moment from the season was
the first time I walked the runway.
It's a tribute look to my grandmother
who was a seamstress in the 1950s and sixties.
And I just sort of felt from that moment
that I was being watched over by the people
who care about me.
When you watch the show,
I think it will become very clear
who's dominating the competition.
- Hello, Cosmo.
I'm Xunami Muse.
I'm from Colon, Panama.
I've been doing drag actively for five years.
Honestly, my favorite moment of the season
is just anytime the girls get to Kiki together
because the chemistry is off the charts on season 16.
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- It is day two of press week
for RuPaul's Drag Race season 16,
and we're at the Empire State Building,
you know, serving looks
and you know, giving the dolls what they need.
- [Speaker] Of course.
- Stop. Stop. What?
No, keep going.
- Hi, my name is Q,
your favorite letter of the alphabet
and I've been doing drag for about five years now.
I am from Kansas City, Missouri,
the Midwest girl.
I actually bought this fabric right here in New York.
I kind of built the outfit around that.
So it's getting very grandma's couch couture.
It's never been seen before
and it's never been done before.
They got a bunch of the most
terrible awful girls together
and you know, just put them in a room together
and told them to try to win $200,000.
So you can imagine how that wins.
- My name is Mhi'ya Imam Le'Paige
and I'm known as the Queen of Flips
and I'm from Miami, Florida
and I've been doing drag for 14 years.
What inspired my look is Beyonce.
She actually wore something like this
to the Lion King premiere.
We all bonded together
and everyone kind of like just
shows so many emotions
and cried together
and I just love that it's a sisterhood with us
and I love these girls.
- No, I hate them all.
Hi, I am Nymphia Wind.
I've been doing drag for six years
and I'm from Taipei, Taiwan,
but I reside in Brooklyn.
Serving you Ariana Grande in yellow.
This whole season
is
a masterpiece
and I love all of my looks
'cause I make them
so they're my babies.
- My name is Mirage and I'm from Las Vegas.
You know what, I'm a raver girl at heart
and that is like the essence of like
what brought this look together
and I just wanted something to squish. It was a lot of fun,
lots of twists and turns
and I know we are not yet ready for it.
You had a little bit of a taste of it, but you have no idea.
You're not even, I don't
wanna give away too much,
but you're not ready. (laughs)
- I'm Dawn and I'm from Brooklyn, New York.
I've been doing drag
three and a half years,
but I've been dabbling for like six
bedroom queen, baby queen, yeah.
I think my favorite moment from the season
is all of the kooky shenanigans that happen off camera.
Am I allowed to say spoilers? (laughs)
Okay, this look today,
Cher Horowitz gets bit by a vampire
was the goal.
- Hi, I am Megami,
the cosplay queen of New York City.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York,
and I've been doing drag for about eight years now.
My look is based on a character Morgan
from the video game, dark Stalkers.
I love cosplaying as powerful women.
It gives me like the energy
and strength to kind of go out there
and face an audience full of
sometimes hundreds,
sometimes tens of people.
I think my favorite moment of this season
is like just walking into the work room for the first time
and being like, oh my God, this is not
what I imagined it to be like at all. (laughs)
I really can't decide which is my favorite look.
I made most of them myself,
so I feel like I have
a special connection to all of them.
They all came from me.
We were just absolutely feral, goblins
the entire time
and kind of fed off each other's energy.
This season in one word,
Chaotic,
- Rotted, spoiled.
- Electric.
There's a lot of personalities in this season.
- Like, I'm drained.
I can never cry ever again.
- Emotional. There's a lot of crying
for absolutely no reason
- Gag Nation.
So get ready to,
- Talented.
Talentedly amazing
a whole word. That's a word.
- Trash.
It's trash.
- Sick.
- One word to describe this season,
Sweet.
That was so gay.
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