"[Pete Burns] portrays the joy but also the tragedy that's inflicted upon the queer experience in pop culture."
"There is a disco-ball-themed look," he says. "She's a big, big slay, and we all love her in the office. I've danced around in her a number of times."
The inspiration for this collection is "really based on Pete Burns," Cowan reveals. The queer British club icon was in the band Dead or Alive and is perhaps best known for the hit song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)."
In every show, Cowan selects a different queer figure who he thinks "portrays the joy but also the tragedy that's inflicted upon the queer experience in pop culture." "Pete Burns was an icon to me growing up," he says. "In the UK, I think they really symbolized a punk attitude toward beauty and glamour and an unapologeticness that I just wanted to pay homage to."
!["[Pete Burns] portrays the joy but also the tragedy that's inflicted upon the queer experience in pop culture."
"There is a disco-ball-themed look," he says. "She's a big, big slay, and we all love her in the office. I've danced around in her a number of times."
The inspiration for this collection is "really based on Pete Burns," Cowan reveals. The queer British club icon was in the band Dead or Alive and is perhaps best known for the hit song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)."
In every show, Cowan selects a different queer figure who he thinks "portrays the joy but also the tragedy that's inflicted upon the queer experience in pop culture." "Pete Burns was an icon to me growing up," he says. "In the UK, I think they really symbolized a punk attitude toward beauty and glamour and an unapologeticness that I just wanted to pay homage to."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/KoDvACg91Rv_xypeqWObjGg5D6A/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2023/10/06/651/n/1922564/bd4981ca25d0f42b_GettyImages-1707049854/i/Pete-Burns-portrays-joy-but-also-tragedy-that-inflicted.jpg "\"[Pete Burns] portrays the joy but also the tragedy that's inflicted upon the queer experience in pop culture.\"
\"There is a disco-ball-themed look,\" he says. \"She's a big, big slay, and we all love her in the office. I've danced around in her a number of times.\"
The inspiration for this collection is \"really based on Pete Burns,\" Cowan reveals. The queer British club icon was in the band Dead or Alive and is perhaps best known for the hit song \"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).\"
In every show, Cowan selects a different queer figure who he thinks \"portrays the joy but also the tragedy that's inflicted upon the queer experience in pop culture.\" \"Pete Burns was an icon to me growing up,\" he says. \"In the UK, I think they really symbolized a punk attitude toward beauty and glamour and an unapologeticness that I just wanted to pay homage to.\"")
