Zaldy

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Zaldy
Born
Salvador Goco

1966 (age 57–58)
Cheshire, Connecticut, U.S.
Education Parsons School of Design
Fashion Institute of Technology (BFA)
Awards Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming (2017, 2018, 2019)

Zaldy Goco (born 1966), [1] also known mononymously as Zaldy, [2] is a Filipino-American [3] fashion designer. In 1995, he was featured as a model in a British television advertisement for Levi's. [4] [5] Zaldy was named one of Out magazine's Out 100 in 2006. [6] He was the costume designer for Michael Jackson's This Is It concerts, [7] Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour, [8] and Britney Spears's Femme Fatale Tour. [9] Zaldy designed the costumes for the Cirque du Soleil shows Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour , Michael Jackson: One , and Volta . [10] He was also the head designer for Gwen Stefani's fashion line L.A.M.B. [11] He has received five Emmy nominations, winning in 2017, 2018, and 2019 for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming due to his work on RuPaul's Drag Race . [12]

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Early life

Zaldy was born in Cheshire, Connecticut; his first name is Salvador but his parents called him Zaldy from birth. His grandmother sparked his interest in fashion. [13]

Education

Zaldy was a student at Parsons School of Design in the 1980s, though he completed his studies in 1990 at the Fashion Institute of Technology. [14]

Modeling

Zaldy walked runways for Thierry Mugler, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Vivienne Westwood modeling women's clothing; he also modeled men's clothing in a Japanese advertising campaign for Paul Smith. [13] In 1995, Zaldy, in drag, starred in a Levi's television commercial. This advertisement was banned in the United States and was only shown late at night in the United Kingdom. [15] This Levi's advertisement was noted as marking a rise in the prominence of drag in pop culture. [4] [16]

Photoshoots and red carpets

Various celebrities have worn Zaldy's clothing in notable photoshoots or on red carpets. Beyoncé wore a Zaldy dress on the cover of the November 2005 issue of Vanity Fair . [17] Film producer Lisa Maria Falcone, producer for 127 Hours , wore a Zaldy dress to the 83rd Academy Awards. [18] [19] Kesha wore a Zaldy dress to the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. [20] Chloe x Halle both wore Zaldy to the 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards; their stylist for the event, Zerina Akers, said: "I always like to use young, new talent, because I feel like we see so much of the same thing in fashion and on the red carpet. I thought it was fresh." [21]

Stage and concert performances

The first stage costume Zaldy designed was for Lady Miss Kier, singer of Deee-Lite; she saw him at a club wearing a catsuit studded with mirrors and asked him to make her a similar outfit. [22] His first time designing stage outfits for an entire musical group was for Scissor Sisters's 2006 performance for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. [23] Zaldy later designed the costumes for the Japanese band Exile. [24]

RuPaul

In the late 1980s, Zaldy met the American drag queen RuPaul at a night club in Union Square, Manhattan. [25] He has designed his drag outfits since 1992. [26] [27] RuPaul wears Zaldy's outfits in the music video for his 1993 single "Supermodel (You Better Work)" and the Netflix series AJ and the Queen . [25]

Zaldy designed RuPaul's suit for the 2019 Met Gala. [28]

RuPaul's Drag Race

Zaldy designs the gowns for RuPaul on RuPaul's Drag Race . He has three other team members and an assortment of other craftspeople such as painters, beaders, and graphic designers. [29] [30]

For his work on Drag Race, Zaldy has received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations and three wins, in the category of Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming. He was first nominated for the 68th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for the season 8 premiere "Keeping It 100!" [31] and received a second nomination, alongside Perry Meek, for the 69th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for the season 9 premiere "Oh. My. Gaga!" [32] Zaldy and Meek won this Emmy. [33] [34] He received a third nomination in this category in 2018 for the season 10 premiere "10s Across the Board". [35] In 2019 he also won an Emmy for the episode "Trump: The Rusical" alongside Art Conn, who designed Michelle Visage's outfit. [36] [37]

He also appeared as a guest judge alongside Kesha on the season 9 episode "Makeovers: Crew Better Work", [38] and made a guest appearance in the season 12 episode "You Don't Know Me." [39] Zaldy also appeared as a guest judge on the RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 6 episode "Show Up Queen".

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryShowEpisodeResultRef.
2016 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming RuPaul's Drag Race Keeping It 100!"Nominated [31]
2017 "Oh. My. Gaga!" (Shared with Perry Meek)Won [32]
2018 "10s Across the Board"Won [35] [40]
2019 "Trump: The Rusical" (shared with Art Conn)Won [36] [37]
2020 "I'm That Bitch"Nominated [41]

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