Dominique, European Runway, POSSE Ball, Philadelphia, 2017

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A color photographic print portrait of Dominique, who walks European Runway category at The Greatest Show on Earth POSSE Ball in Philadelphia in 2017. Dominique is pictured standing against a dark grey background holding a trophy shaped like a ferris wheel. She wears a pink and blue ensemble and a large yellow Afro wig. Her face is painted white with an exaggerated mouth painted on in purple glitter and large pink feather eyelashes with black polka dots just beneath her lower lashline. Her ensemble is composed of a blue and pink tie-dye body suit beneath a ruffled shoulder and sleeve piece and lace-up corset made of a thick, leather-like material in an iridescent purple, pink, and blue print. Her skirt is composed of ribbons of the same fabric flowing from the corset. She wears a pink bejeweled collar necklace and a pink flower in her hair.

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