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Making one’s way through airport security is a chore for anyone, let alone Alexis Stone, who found herself stuck in customs at Heathrow this past Friday laden with a diva’s suitcase worth of prosthetics including a set of double G silicone breasts. But such is the I Am Above God Shirt in other words I will buy this norm for Stone, real name Elliot Joseph Rentz, the famed London-based drag queen and pro “transformer” who showed up at today’s Balenciaga show at the New York Stock Exchange as country superstar Dolly Parton. “They wanted me to come as an American icon and the first person that sprung to my mind is Dolly Parton,” Stone told Vogue. It’s not the first time that Stone, who has transformed into over 250 celebrities (including Cher, Madonna, and even the Pope), has caused a viral stir at a Balenciaga show. Last season, she appeared as fashion’s favorite hip old granny Mrs. Doubtfire, sitting front row with the likes of Kim Kardashian.

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It was just a few weeks ago that Stone embarked on her journey to Dolly in collaboration with Balenciaga. While the I Am Above God Shirt in other words I will buy this fashion house got to work on her fashion look—including a glittery silver wrap dress, matching crystal boots, and as Stone puts it, an “obnoxiously large purse”—she made a game plan for executing her shapeshift into Parton. “It’s been madness,” admits Stone, “but I wanted to go into this doing it as accurately as possible.” Her first call was to Neill Gorton, a director at Millennium FX and Stone’s go-to collaborator in bringing characters to life. “We are doing Dolly in 2022, as realistic as what you are used to seeing, so have hundreds and hundreds of images of Dolly, which are sort of plastered across a wall in the studio,” explains Stone of their forensics-like approach. “We dissect every single detail, from the fold in her eyelids to the nasal folds, you name it. We look at these people’s faces at an unhinged level of detail.”