“I have thoughts about being forever young,” LaBeija said, when asked what they had in common with Gus. They spoke with declamatory grandeur, as if issuing a decree. “Old Deuteronomy”—the “Cats” patriarch—“has the power to restore me back to my youth, and I get to reconstruct, revise, revisit all the things that I experienced. I don’t want to be considered aged. I don’t want to experience loneliness, isolation. So, I choose to stay mentally young and, through visualization, I create a mystique through fashion that allows me to revisit every era that I was prominent in during my youth. That’s what the audience gets to see.”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter