CUNNING STUNT
on costumes
(Ruby) Where do you get your costumes? 
(Cunning) Most of them are made... I get them made for me.

These pants were made by my drag wife, Liz B.N. I did Levi's Pride campaign last summer and so this jacket was custom-made for Levi's.

(Ruby) Yeah, that's beautiful.

That embroidery is crazy.
(Cunning) Thank you. It says my name on the back of the jacket. It's hand-embroidered.

I love this look. This is Leather Master, which is a leather shop in South Florida. I have a rhinestoner, and my rhinestone made this.

(Ruby) What did your earliest costumes look like? 
(Cunning) My earliest costumes were just dead-ass my own clothes. For my first show, I wore chinos, a brown belt, loafers, and a white shirt. And I don't smoke cigarettes, but I rolled a pack of cigarettes up my sleeve because I wanted to look like Marlon Brando. 

(Ruby) Do you think that you have a pose that encapsulates Cunning?
(Cunning) A pose?

(Ruby) Yeah. 
(Cunning) I do this inversion on people, where I sort of sit in their laps and then flip upside down and do a spread eagle. I do that at most shows. 

Probably that, yeah. 

(Ruby) Your characteristic. 
(Cunning) My characteristic? Yeah.

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