PRESS LIST
2020
2.10.20 | Glittery Goodness Podcast: Emotional Shirley Bassey Lipsyncs / More Velourian Ramblings
3.2.20 | AnOther Magazine: Sasha Velour: “Drag Isn’t Limited to One Gender or One Style”
3.3.20 | Express & Star: Sasha Velour opens spectacular Smoke & Mirrors show in Birmingham - review
3.6.20 | DAZED: Sasha Velour ‘Art Can Save Your Life’
3.6.20 | The Argus: Review: Smoke & Mirrors
3.9.20 | PinkNews: Sasha Velour’s Smoke & Mirrors is her own important piece of queer history
3.10.20 | Attitude: REVIEW | SASHA VELOUR PROVES SHE MIGHT JUST BE DRAG RACE'S GREATEST AMBASSADOR IN 'SMOKE & MIRRORS'
3.11.20 | DAZED: Sasha Velour on drag history and the most iconic Ru-veals
3.15.20 | Bricks Magazine (COVER): Sasha Velour in Conversation with Allie X
3.31.20 |Entertainment Weekly: Sasha Velour is the drag mother of our dreams in exclusive NightGowns clip
4.2.20 | Entertainment Weekly: Sasha Velour gushes over Quibi's colorful NightGowns cast: Meet them here
4.6.20 | WWD: With ‘Nightgowns’ on Quibi, Sasha Velour Offers an Escape From Now
4.6.20 | Queerty: “We don’t have any rules” Sasha Velour on her new streaming show, ‘NightGowns’
4.6.20 | Time: We Watched Every New Show on Quibi. Here's What to Watch—and What to Skip
4.6.20 | The Los Angeles Times: As coronavirus snuffs out live shows, Quibi and Sasha Velour give drag fans a lifeline
4.6.20 | USA Today: Sasha Velour delivers empowerment, coronavirus escape with Quibi's drag extravaganza 'NightGowns'
4.6.20 | Decider: Sasha Velour’s ‘NightGowns’ Drops a Universe of Drag into the Palm of Your Hand
4.6.20 | Vulture: So, Which Quibis Are Worth Your Time?
4.6.20 | AV Club: Quibi, reviewed: We judge Chrissy’s Court, the new Punk’d, and more
4.6.20 | Elle: The Quibi Breakdown: Here's What To Watch On The New Streaming Service
4.7.20 | GQ: The Best Videos on the Internet Today
4.8.20 | them: Sasha Velour, Joel Kim Booster, and More Tell Us About Their Quibi Shows
4.8.20 | ScreenRant: Sasha Velour Redefines Drag Culture in Quibi Show Nightgowns
4.10.20 | The New York Times: Quibi: 9 Shows Worth Your Time. Or at Least a Few
Minutes.
4.13.20 | V Magazine: NIGHTGOWNS SERIES BRINGS THE FABULOUS WORLD OF DRAG TO YOU
4.13.20 | Rotten Tomatoes: THE BEST QUIBI SHOWS TO STREAM NOW
5.22.20 | The Cut: How Queen Sasha Velour Is Occupying Herself In Isolation
5.29.20 | The Guardian: 'Free drinks, drugs, boys': what happens next for RuPaul'sDrag Race winners
7.2.20 | Entertainment Weekly: Binge Podcast on Season 9 with Peppermint
7.17.20 | Entertainment Weekly: Sasha Velour crusades online with digital NightGowns Forever show
8.6.20 | AV Club: Sasha Velour previews NightGowns Forever, talks digital drag and Shea Couleé
8.10.20 | Deadline: Sasha Velour’s ‘NightGowns’ Docuseries Renewed For Season 2 At Quibi
8.11.20 | GayTimes: Quibi renews Sasha Velour’s acclaimed docuseries NightGowns for season 2
8.16.20 | The Pride LA: Sasha Velour Hosts “NightGowns Forever” Event Virtually
8.31.20 | V Magazine: Sasha Velour interviews Naomi Smalls
9.24.20 | ABC (Australia): The House That Velour Built: Sasha on getting the “villain edit” and finding queer family
10.7.20 | Vogue: Drag Star Sasha Velour Created a Fabulous, Monstrous New Zine
10.7.20 | USA Today: Drag goes to drive-ins, streaming shows in COVID-19 era: 'We have to try.'
11.12.20 | Out Magazine: Sasha Velour Just Wants to Be an Example of 'Drag Excellence'
11.23.20 | Entertainment Weekly: Drag icons to roast your chestnuts in Drag Queen Christmas special
2019
11.24.19 | Algonquin Times: DRAG QUEEN SASHA VELOUR BRINGS HER “SMOKE AND MIRRORS” TOUR TO ACT
11.21.19 | Out: Out100 Drag Queens of the Year: Trixie Mattel, Sasha Velour, Shangela
11.20.19 | Winnipeg Free Press: Petal to the metal: Drag queen Sasha Velour brings flower power to everything she does
7.31.19 | Gay Times: Drag Race star Sasha Velour receives “lip sync spectacular” series on Quibi
7.30.19 | Digital Spy: RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour is getting her own series
7.29.19 | Billboard: Sasha Velour Announces 'Nightgowns' Docu-Series on Quibi
7.29.19 | EW.com: RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour lands Nightgowns Quibi series
7.29.19 | Logo (NewNowNext): Goddess Sasha Velour Returns to TV With New “Nightgowns” Docuseries
7.29.19 | World of Wonder: Condragulations to Sasha Velour on Her New Docuseries “Nightgowns” Coming to Quibi Next Year!
7.5.19 | GAYLETTER: Sasha Velour’s Pridegowns Polaroids
6.29.19 | People Magazine: Sasha Velour Is Bringing Queer History to Pride Weekend: 'It Feels Particularly Urgent'
6.27.19 | GQ: From Joan of Arc to Murray Hill, Drag Kings Have Redefined Queer Culture, story by Sasha Velour
6.27.19 | Good Morning America: Drag queen Sasha Velour gets ready for Pride
6.24.19 | Nylon: Sasha Velour Is Writing Her Own Fairy-tale Ending
6.21.19 | Buzzfeed: Sasha Velour on Nightgowns World Pride
6.20.19 | Guardian: 'We gotta keep fighting and yelling': New York drag queens on the legacy of Stonewall
6.10.19 | Mashable: Sasha Velour is making the world a prouder place, one lip-sync at a time
5.31.19 | Access: Sasha Velour, Scarlet Envy & More Dish On The Artistry Of ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ (EXCLUSIVE)
5.20.19 | LA Mag: The Best Things to Do This Week in L.A. featuring Sasha Velour’s Smoke & Mirrors
5.9.19 | Women’s Wear Daily: Met Gala 2019: Sasha Velour's Critical Camp Eye
4.03.19 | Out: Sasha Velour's New Solo Show Is an Homage to Her Gender Fluidity
3.29.19 | The Theater Times: Sasha Velour’s “Smoke & Mirrors”: Long Live the Queen
5.23.19 | Fast Company: How the House of Velour is disrupting the business of drag
3.29.19 | Culture Bot: From Bushwick to (off-off) Broadway: How Sasha Velour marries her night club roots with modern theatricality
3.28.19 | Forbes: Sasha Velour's 'Smoke & Mirrors' Is A Spellbinding Tour De Force
3.27.19 | Bedford+Bowery: Sasha Velour of Drag Race Reflects On Her First Theatrical Show, ‘Smoke & Mirrors’
3.26.19 | Paper: Sasha Velour's 'Smoke & Mirrors' Will Distort Your Reality
3.21.19 | Garage Magazine: Sasha Velour's New Show Unpacks The 'Magic Act' of Drag
3.14.19 | Time Out New York: Sasha Velour’s Smoke & Mirrors
3.13.19 | BUILD Series: Sasha Velour talks “Smoke & Mirrors” theatre show
3.13.19 | V Magazine: EXCLUSIVE: Behind the Illusion of Sasha Velour
3.7.19 | Fast Company: How the fantasy of drag helps Sasha Velour deal with reality
3.5.19 | World of Wonder: Watch Sasha Velour, Jiggly Caliente, Shangela and Some of Your Other Favorite Drag Queens on ‘Broad City’
3.4.19 | Out Magazine: Sasha Velour, Shangela, and Jiggly Caliente Were All on 'Broad City'
3.4.19 | People Magazine: Inside Drag Race Star Sasha Velour's Enchanting Brooklyn Home, Where 'Kitsch' Meets 'High-Class'
2.27.19 | Entertainment Weekly: Sasha Velour asks “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 11 Queens a Question
2.27.19 | Entertainment Weekly: Alan Cumming puts a spin on 'Be Our Guest' in exclusive Broad City sneak peek featuring Sasha Velour
2.18.19 | Access Hollywood: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’s’ Sasha Velour Announces New ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ Show & NYC Residency
2.14.19 | GAY TIMES: COVER STORY
1.29.19 | NewNowNext: Sasha Velour Is a Gardening Glamazon on the Cover of “Gay Times”
1.14.19 | GoHakka: Live Review of “Smoke & Mirrors”
1.3.19 | Smithsonian Magazine: How Drag Helped Sasha Velour Cope With the Loss of Her Mother
2018
12.20.18 | InStyle: How Much it Costs to Be a Drag Queen, According to RuPaul's Drag Race Winner Sasha Velour
12.17.18 | People Magazine: Sasha Velour featured in “Star Tracks”
12.14.18 | Vogue: ACRIA’s Annual Holiday Dinner Brings Out Sasha Velour
12.14.18 | HelloGiggles: Sasha Velour explains how drag's optimism can change the future
12.14.18 | Billboard: #20GAYTEEN Timeline: 21 Best LGBTQ Music Moments of the Year feat. Sasha Velour’s Opening Ceremony fashion show
12.13.18 | QUEERTY: The perfect holiday merch for the ‘Drag Race’ super fan in your life, featuring VELOUR: The Drag Magazine
12.11.18 | ELLE (YouTube): BEAT. Contour. Snatched. How Drag Queens Shaped the Biggest Makeup Trends
12.11.18 | ELLE: Everything We Know About Beauty We Learned From Drag Queens
12.9.18 | The Washington Post: Smithsonian brings together big thinkers — from Alfre Woodard to Sasha Velour — for a ‘long conversation’
12.6.18 | INTO: The Weekender: Brooklyn, featuring Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
12.5.18 | ELLE: Sasha Velour on the Power & Platform of Drag
12.5.18 | ELLE: How Lipstick Became a Powerful Tool of Self-Discovery for Sasha Velour
11.28.18 | Seventeen: LGBTQ Holiday Gifts From Queer Creators featuring VELOUR: The Drag Magazine
11.23.18 | OUT: 7 Gifts to Support Queer Businesses on Black Friday
11.16.18 | INTO: For Sasha Velour, Imagining Drag’s Future Means Learning Your Drag History
11.16.18 | Paper Magazine: 12 Stunning Spreads From Sasha Velour's New Art Book
11.8.18 | Hornet: Sasha Velour Is Heading to the Smithsonian to Discuss the Global Impact of Drag
11.8.18 | Elite Daily: Sasha Velour From ‘Drag Race’ Has An Important Message About Representation – EXCLUSIVE
11.8.18 | Metrosource: Sasha Velour Talks about How Winning “Drag Race” Will Change Your Life!
11.6.18 | OUT: Swatch Gets a Glam Makeover with Sasha Velour
11.6.18 | Entertainment Weekly: Sasha Velour unveils Velour: The Drag Magazine hardcover book
10.31.18 | Plastik Magazine: Sasha Velour's full performance at Plastik Gallery's closing party
10.23.18 | Rolling Stone: Sasha Velour Meets World: ‘Drag Race’ Winner Talks Life Before and After Ru
10.1.18 | Entertainment Weekly: RuPaul's Drag Race queens stun in EW's sickening portraits from DragCon NYC
10.1.18 | Billboard: RuPaul's DragCon NYC: The 10 Biggest Takeaways From Drag's Big Weekend
10.1.18 | OUT: 33 Iconic Photos from Sasha’s Velour's Nightgowns By Zachary Zane
9.27.18 | Entertainment Tonight: Sasha Velour Talks ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Reign and Slaying Fashion Week (Exclusive)
9.27.18 | Billboard: The 10 Greatest Performances from Sasha Velour's 'Nightgowns'
9.14.18 | TeenVogue: Sasha Velour Breaks Down Her Favorite Instagram Accounts
9.14.18 | them: How Sasha Velour Is Queering the Way We View Fashion Week
9.14.18 | Billboard: Rihanna's 2018 Diamond Ball Draws Childish Gambino, Tiffany Haddish, A$AP Rocky & More
9.14.18 | Vogue: Rihanna Closes Out New York Fashion Week With the 4th Annual Clara Lionel Foundation Diamond Ball
9.14.18 | W: Go Inside Rihanna’s Fourth Annual Diamond Ball, With Childish Gambino, Issa Rae, and the Bad Gal Herself
9.14.18 | Page Six: The best red carpet looks from Rihanna's Diamond Ball
9.10.18 | InStyle: 13 Stars Who Shined Bright at Rihanna's 2018 Diamond Ball
9.10.18 | Paper: Inside Opening Ceremony's Drag-Filled NYFW Afterparty
9.10.18 | The New York Times: Sasha Velour Gives New York Fashion Week the ‘Gift of Showz’
9.10.18. | INTO: Front Row At Sasha Velour’s NYFW Drag Show For Opening Ceremony
9.10.18. | TIME: Opening Ceremony Hosted a New York Fashion Week Show Celebrating Drag with Sasha Velour
9.10.18 | OUT: Sasha Velour Throws a NYFW Drag Spectacular for Opening Ceremony By Glenn Garner
9.10.18 | The Cut: Opening Ceremony’s Drag Performers on What It Means to Be at Fashion Week
9.10.18. | Elle: RuPaul’s Sasha Velour Hand-Picked Over 40 LGBTQ Models For The Opening Ceremony Show
9.10.18. | The Fashion Spot: Sasha Velour’s Opening Ceremony Drag Show at NYFW Was Filled With Stars, Statements and Legends
9.10.18 | Billboard: Christina Aguilera Joins 'Drag Race' Stars For Surprise New York Fashion Week Performance
8.30.18 | Billboard: Sasha Velour Casts Shea Couleé, Vander Von Odd & More for Her DragCon NYC 'Nightgowns' Show
8.20.18 | INTO: The Six Best Bushwig Performances
8.18.18 | WPR: Awkwafina and Sasha Velour
8.17.18 | WUNC: Sasha Velour: 'Anyone Can, And Must, Do Drag'
8.17.18 | NPR: Awkwafina And Sasha Velour: New York City Queens
8.17.18 | NPR: Sasha Velour: 'Anyone Can, And Must, Do Drag'
8.8.18 | Vogue Germany: Sasha Velour at Bushwig Berlin
7.31.18 | Mic.com: Behind the Scenes of Sasha Velour's Nightgowns
7.27.18 | Seventeen: 11 Things You Didn't Know About "RuPaul's Drag Race" Winner Sasha Velour
7.12.18 | Billboard: Alaska, Sasha Velour, Lady Bunny & Horrorchata to Headline BUSHWIG 2018
7.11.18 | INTO: Sasha Velour is Officially a Meme
6.29.18 | People Magazine: Sasha Velour Spills the Secrets of Her Out-of-This-World RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Finale Look
6.28.18 | OUT: Sasha Velour Passes The Crown Tonight, But Her Reign's Only Just Begun
6.28.18 | OUT: Exclusive: Sasha Velour In A Pride Look For Every Color of the Rainbow
6.28.18 | Entertainment Weekly: RuPaul's Drag Race champ Sasha Velour crashes season 10 interview with killer looks and royal wisdom
6.28.18 | Entertainment Weekly: One year after winning RuPaul's Drag Race, Sasha Velour's still fighting
6.27.18| Billboard: Sasha Velour Reflects on Her Year Since Winning 'Drag Race' Crown & Offers Advice to Season 10 Successor
6.27.18 | Teen Vogue: Sasha Velour is the Queer Royal We Deserve
6.25.18 | PopSugar: Sasha Velour Is Surrendering Her Crown, but She'll Always Be a F*cking Queen
6.14.18 | HuffPost: How Drag Superstar Sasha Velour Keeps Herself Accountable To The Queer Community
6.1.18 | Buzzfeed: 5 Young LGBT Leaders Got Surprised By Their Own Queer Role Models
5.3.18 | Teen Vogue: Sasha Velour Gives an Intimate Look at the Making of "Pirate Jenny" and Talks Pushing Drag Into New Directions
5.3.18 | Vanity Fair: Sasha Velour on the “Queer Fairy Tale” in Her New Film Anthology
5.3.18 | INTO: Sasha Velour Premieres Musical Short, 'Pirate Jenny'
5.3.18 | them.: Sasha Velour's Newest Film Project Celebrates the True Diversity of Drag
5.3.18 | PAPER Magazine: Drag Superstar Sasha Velour Premieres 'One Dollar Drags'
4.24.18 | Logo: Out of the Closet with Sasha Velour
2017 and Earlier
10.29.17 | The Guardian: Sasha Velour: ‘Drag is darkness turned into power’
7.24.17 | NPR: Sasha Velour On Why Drag Is A 'Political And Historical Art Form’
6.29.17 | Vogue: Sasha Velour From RuPaul’s Drag Race on Her Style Icons and How to Be a Queen
6.27.17 | Vulture: RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner Sasha Velour On Why Drag Is ‘Powerful and Political’ Art
6.26.17 | W: Sasha Velour Explains That Flower Stunt and the Inspiration Behind Her Eyebrows
6.26.17 | Vanity Fair: There’s Avant-Garde, and then there’s Sasha Velour
6.26.17 | The Advocate: Sasha Velour: Drag Superstar Today, POTUS Tomorrow?
6.25.17 | NPR: 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Winner Sasha Velour Cut From A Different Fabric
6.19.17 | Billboard: Rock The Look: Sasha Velour as Siouxsie Sue
2.7.17 | Vulture: Sasha Velour: Drag Genius
11.8.16 | Alright Darling: One to Watch: Sasha Velour
10.22.16 | The Huffington Post: This Beautiful Drag Magazine Is Providing A Comprehensive Guide To ‘Realness’
10.20.16 | Out: Velour, The Drag Magazine's Brilliant Illustrated History of Realness (Exclusive)
10.7.16 | Thotyssey: On Point with Sasha Velour
6.23.16 | The New York Times: It’s Gay Pride Weekend, Dress The Part
11.16.15 | The Bushwick Daily: NIGHTGOWNS and VYM Magazine: Brooklyn's Answer to Expanding Drag Communities
8.15.15 | The Forward: Inside Sasha Velour’s Talmud of Drag