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Violet Chachki: 'Dressing in drag was escapism, therapy... and channelling all of my anger and frustration'

The Chachki character was mood-boarded early. 'Bettie Page was on there, eternally. Dita Von Teese. I used to love Ladytron, this British band. Miss Kittin & the Hacker. Lady Miss Kier was huge for me.' She later became friends with the Deee-Lite frontwoman, a queer style icon, after moving for a brief spell to New York. 'It didn't work out for me. I just couldn't cut it. I'd just won Drag Race, just had my heartbroken in Atlanta, so I was kind of running away from that.' The nightlife was in many ways too alluring in NYC. 'You can get lost,' she laughs. 'Every time I go to New York I do end up walking around Times Square at 8am like a crackhead.' She is now happily settled in LA.