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Drag Race Espa\u00f1a has proven to be one of the strongest international franchises and has introduced us to queens who embody charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.<\/p>\n
The show\u2019s third season is no different. After excelling on the runway with breathtaking fashions, showcasing her sense of humor in the Snatch Game and \u201cUno Dos Drag\u201d challenge, and putting her pipes on display in the Wizard of Oz-inspired musical, the lovely Pitita snatched the crown \u2013 and our hearts. And she accomplished all of this with a broken finger!<\/p>\n
Hailing from Barcelona and taking her name from famed Spanish socialite Pitita Ridruejo, this fashion-forward queen (born Bernat Bordes) took time to chat with us about her experience on the show, her fashion influences, and her new single in our exclusive interview Say \u201dhola\u201d to this multi-talented performer.<\/p>\n
Hola, Pitita. Congratulations on your win! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Thank you so much.<\/p>\n First of all, very important question. How is your finger?<\/strong><\/p>\n My finger is good, already usable, so I can do better makeup than I used to do on the show. It\u2019s actually working again, so I\u2019m very, very happy.<\/p>\n What got you started in drag?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, actually it was fashion. I\u2019m a fashion designer out of drag, and what I started doing in my life as an artist was to make clothes and gowns, usually for women. So, it was the third season that got me to actually wear them, and as I tried drag and I started it, and then I fell in love with the job, and I saw that drag is way more than dressing up as a woman, as the kind of woman you would love to be in another life, or in the same one, because we can actually do both, which is fabulous, and, yeah, that\u2019s the reason, actually, fashion.<\/p>\n What were your fashion influences?<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been a fashion kid since I started. The first movie I remember is Murder on the Orient Express<\/em>, the old movie, or Evil Under the Sun<\/em>, all the Agatha Christie movies. And I also remember The Devil Wears Prada<\/em> as one of my first memories in fashion. I\u2019ve been reading fashion magazines, watching every single fashion show, following every single collection. My best references are Alexander McQueen, Guo Pei from China that works in Paris, also doing haute couture. Givenchy, Dior, Dolce & Gabbana. I love many, many, many, many brands and many, many designers. I think there\u2019s a lot of talent out there.\u00a0<\/p>\n How did you react when you found out you were cast on season three?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, as everyone, I started crying. I was very, very happy I made it. You know that we have to go through a very hard casting. And this year, actually, in Spain, they, well, I don\u2019t know if you saw, but the other runways, they were very high level. We had feathers. We had the three-in-one look. We had technology illusions happening. Like, we had a lot of work. And it really took a lot. So, I was very, very happy and very excited to get to share that. It was a dream of mine as a fashion designer to get a list of 12 amazing dresses you have to get done in one month and with no budget. It\u2019s just a challenge you would love to do and you would die to do as an artist.<\/p>\n What was your favorite challenge on the show? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n I have to say, and this may be controversial because many people thought that I didn\u2019t deserve to win, but my favorite challenge was the musical. I think we did an amazing job as a whole cast. I think we played amazing as a team and I really enjoyed the performing life. It\u2019s what I do every week is what I love to do. And I really look forward to doing something like that, like with dance and choreography and scenography. It takes many, many things to make actually a very complicated piece of work all together. And I really had the best time rehearsing and doing everything because it\u2019s performing live and playing stupid in front of people. It\u2019s my favorite thing to do in drag.<\/p>\n Yes, I loved that and I loved the \u201cUno Dos Drag\u201d challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n Oh yeah, I\u2019m very proud of that. You remember I said that I was inspired by my father, who is a little like that. But I took it obviously in a very extreme parody way. But I really had fun because you saw me let loose right there. I really had fun doing something I had never done before, but I thought, I saw that it was kind of working. So, it was like, go there, go there, go bigger. And it was very, very fun. So yeah, thank you for mentioning that. That\u2019s something I really feel very proud of.<\/p>\n Yes, it was wonderful. And like I mentioned before, your fashions on the runway were absolutely fantastic. Which of your outfits was your favorite?<\/strong><\/p>\n Okay, that question I\u2019ve been asked a lot and I still haven\u2019t made up my mind, but I have to say, just because of the originality of it, it should be the croquette with the sea fish because it went viral the most and like, well, you saw my style in drag. I was lucky enough to be able to show all the looks I had, so people have seen my style. It\u2019s very classic, it\u2019s very fashion, it\u2019s very glamour and antique inspired sometimes, but I love to go out of the box and I love doing that high fashion\u2026what\u2019s it? Seafood? I know what the name of it in English.<\/p>\n A squid?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, exactly, the squid. So that, the fashion squid, that\u2019s something I will forever remember.<\/p>\n What was the biggest challenge for you during the season?<\/strong><\/p>\n Dancing. I have two left feet, and then you are usually very tired. So, you\u2019re not probably in the best place to learn choreography if you don\u2019t like it or you\u2019re not used to it. I\u2019m used to it, but I usually have a week in my home with my choreographer to learn it. I don\u2019t have like eight hours to be able to be in front of the judges and get be judged about that. So, the second episode when we had to dance that very complicated choreography. That was the time I was the most scared of leaving because I thought I\u2019m not really good at this and we had many good dancers in the cast. So, I was I was like, okay, this one I may be in danger, but it all went well with great fashion again.\u00a0<\/p>\n Would you want to participate in a versus the world season of Drag Race<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n I think it would be amazing to be able to spread my drag in a whole bigger level, like right now I\u2019m already performing in Spain and in some other places also, but I think it would be amazing for a fashion queen like myself who has also done all the work that he presented on the show, that actually, you know, happens very few times. There\u2019s not that many contestants who are seamstresses and we do all of that. So, I think that\u2019s a very nice thing to know ways to be a part of the show. Again, all these interests that you always respect a lot. And I would love to do that. I think not right now, obviously, because I just finished the season. I won four challenges. I have to really get better and get some rest to find out new ideas to be amazing again because it\u2019s really very hard to do better, you know, it is very hard.<\/p>\n I know you\u2019re going on tour with the Gran Hotel, what can fans expect when they see you live?<\/strong><\/p>\n I think they don\u2019t know much what to expect. As Pitita I\u2019ve been working only for two years. Like here in Barcelona, everybody knows me. I\u2019ve been performing in almost every club, almost every party, almost everywhere. So here in Barcelona, everybody knows my style of performance and drag. But outside of that, when I went to the competition, nobody knew me. They were all from Madrid almost. And I really didn\u2019t know much, like they didn\u2019t know much of me and they didn\u2019t know what to expect. So that\u2019s something I think played in my favor. I guess everything, every single time I did something, it was actually news. Right? So, um, I don\u2019t know. I mean, what was the question? Tell me again, because I think I went somewhere.<\/p>\n