How Much Money Did Yvie Oddly Spend On Her RuPaul’s Drag Race Looks?
Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images By Joey Keogh/March 11, 2022 12:00 pm EST
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” doesn’t have the best track record for putting more unique queens front and center, with the exception of Sharon Needles, of course. But there was a considerable gap between Season 4, when Needles took home the crown, and Season 11, when we were gifted another weirdo winner in the form of Yvie Oddly. In a post-victory interview with MTV News, Oddly described it as “a win for putting humanity back in drag.”
Oddly elaborated that her triumph — over the significantly sleeker Brook Lynn Hytes, no less — stood to remind “people that as nice as it would be if queens could come onto the show with, like, millions of dollars worth of designer pieces and all the connections and all the polish … the drag queens who are actually out there working to evolve [this art form] are the people who are on the streets, who can’t afford all of the nice things.” Fellow competitors consistently criticized Oddly for her looks, which were frequently deemed unpolished. However, the Season 11 victor spent just as much as everybody else pulling her “Drag Race” wardrobe together.
How Much Money Did Yvie Oddly Spend On Her RuPaul’s Drag Race Looks?
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By Joey Keogh/March 11, 2022 12:00 pm EST
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” doesn’t have the best track record for putting more unique queens front and center, with the exception of Sharon Needles, of course. But there was a considerable gap between Season 4, when Needles took home the crown, and Season 11, when we were gifted another weirdo winner in the form of Yvie Oddly. In a post-victory interview with MTV News, Oddly described it as “a win for putting humanity back in drag.”
Oddly elaborated that her triumph — over the significantly sleeker Brook Lynn Hytes, no less — stood to remind “people that as nice as it would be if queens could come onto the show with, like, millions of dollars worth of designer pieces and all the connections and all the polish … the drag queens who are actually out there working to evolve [this art form] are the people who are on the streets, who can’t afford all of the nice things.” Fellow competitors consistently criticized Oddly for her looks, which were frequently deemed unpolished. However, the Season 11 victor spent just as much as everybody else pulling her “Drag Race” wardrobe together.
Oddly elaborated that her triumph — over the significantly sleeker Brook Lynn Hytes, no less — stood to remind “people that as nice as it would be if queens could come onto the show with, like, millions of dollars worth of designer pieces and all the connections and all the polish … the drag queens who are actually out there working to evolve [this art form] are the people who are on the streets, who can’t afford all of the nice things.”
Fellow competitors consistently criticized Oddly for her looks, which were frequently deemed unpolished. However, the Season 11 victor spent just as much as everybody else pulling her “Drag Race” wardrobe together.
Yvie Oddly called in favors from everybody she knew
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“I could tell that, even having spent more money than I had ever even had in my life, everybody else was clearly more expensive,” she said. Winning the show didn’t put any pressure on her to over-spend in future, however, with Oddly telling Hollywood Life, “There is nothing more dreadfully boring to me than seeing a drag performer in a luxuriously expensive look that has absolutely nothing to do with/say about themself or the way they view the world.”
