Amanda Lepore: The Cover Story from GAYLETTER Issue 19
"I wasn’t concerned about passing to go to the supermarket. I wanted to be on the cover of Vogue. I wanted the glamor. I wanted to be Marilyn Monroe walking to get an Oscar."
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INTERVIEW BY SUSANNE BARTSCH
PHOTOGRAPHY BY RICHIE SHAZAM
STYLING BY SUNZHIQUE
Iconic is thrown around a lot these days, but truly no one is more of an icon than Amanda Lepore. Maybe ikon with a k better translates the blonde bombshell’s saint-like figuration, her image an object of veneration as much as a tool for instruction. “They can learn from you,” says nightlife mastermind Susanne Bartsch, a couple of times, over the course of their conversation here. For GAYLETTER, the two friends chatted about sunscreen and pickles, as well as Lepore’s experience walking the runway for Balenciaga, being a longtime muse of photographer David LaChapelle, and her path to becoming a living fantasy and fixture of nocturnal New York.
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