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Step inside RuPaul's mansion, baby.
The RuPaul's Drag Race big precocious opened up the doors to his and hubby Georges LeBar's gorgeous Beverly Hills mansion for Architectural Digest's Open Home series. And the May 16 video gives afloat penetration into the glamour that surrounds Ru—both connected the Drag Race signifier and astatine home.
As expected, determination are nary shortage of fabulous touches wrong the home, which features rooms curated to a peculiar theme—including a disco room.
"We emotion euphony and we emotion to dance," RuPaul explained portion showing disconnected the room's 26 disco balls hanging from the ceiling, "and erstwhile I was coming up determination was ever a spot that said cocktails, dancing, that doesn't hap anymore truthful we decided we needed a disco successful our location and this is it."
But the grooviness doesn't extremity there, arsenic successful summation to a "Hollywood Regency Dorothy Draper-inspired fireplace" the 62-year-old lined the walls with immoderate of disco's astir iconic faces—including Billie Holliday, Grace Jones and Diana Ross.
As helium enactment it, "They are each beauteous and animate america to creation and determination around."
RuPaul is known for his iconic ensembles implicit the years, truthful of people the closet abstraction is thing abbreviated of perfection. The location features a sprawling walk-in closet and a second space solely dedicated to his resistance costumes.
"We took 2 bedrooms and turned it into my closet and I've got everything successful here," helium recounted arsenic the camera panned crossed his rainbow wardrobe. "It's benignant of similar a humanities artifact. Every buying travel I've ever gone on—even Lil Jon's—are documented close present successful this precise room."
But his closet isn't the lone spot acceptable for a queen, as one pulverization country is designed with green silk and golden leafage wallpaper, with Victorian-era inspired silhouette figures featuring his ain illustration successful different wigs.
"The location is simply a touchstone to punctual maine to animate radical to consciousness the magic that's seemingly truthful elusive these days," RuPaul explained. "It's meant to beryllium whimsical and fun. None of it is to beryllium taken excessively seriously."
But for arsenic expansive arsenic the mansion is, RuPaul prefers intimate gatherings implicit expansive soiree.
"I entertain connected television, not astatine my house," helium said. "When you unrecorded specified a nationalist life, you request boundaries."
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