Blake McCabe
Drag artist, designer and seamstress known as part of the Paradisco drag family
Blake McCabe is a designer; a person with a vision, a creative vision. A vision where one can dress up in bright colors and wild prints that make you pop out so much people have no choice but to compliments your attire. Outfits that build confidence and positivity: something that we all deserve in life.
It had all started around the age of 12 with his love for the costumes and fashions from the movie ‘Titanic’, a young Kate Winslet in a fitted women’s white and purple pinstripe Edwardian day wear suit and an oversized matching purple hat. He found himself drawing the costumes from a filmography book he had found and soon after he began mixing and matching ensembles. He played with other color combinations with the same costumes and began working with his own silhouettes and styles.
Blake’s interest in sewing continued to grow as he expanded his knowledge and art. Two weeks after having graduated from high school in 2011, Blake began summer classes for fashion design in Seattle. In college he made sure to dedicate as much of his time as possible towards my craft in design.
In his third year at Fashion Design school, he began to pick up an interest in the art of drag performance. He made the decision to branch off in the direction of drag costuming which would eventually be what put his foot in the door for custom designs! No one feels less shame in wearing whatever-you-want than a Drag artist, especially drag queens.
Blake slowly started working with drag queens as models and as clients for competitions as well as personal business. He also started taking interest in the art of drag as he began working with them as clientele. He connected with a well known drag performance family in the Seattle area who graciously welcomed him in with open arms. As he became a part of their drag family, he was able to begin building and creating costumes for Drag Queens. He began performing in his own outfits while other pieces were showcased by his drag family and other local artists. From this point it was just a matter of market reach and building a clientele that would not only have his back but help showcase his product in most fabulous manner: the stage! In just a short time he went from Blake the designer to Blake McCabe; a designer with a drag hobby.
Blake’s repertoire includes simple colorful leotards, extravagant gowns, complex characters, high fashion attire, celebrity impersonation designs, to intense Disney character costumes and pieces. These days his work can be easily found in the drag scene in the Pacific Northwest but has reached many other states outside of this little corner up here in Washington!
