The first season of "RuPaul's Drag Race", later referred to as "The Lost Season", and premiered in the US on which date, the winner of the first season won a lifetime supply of MAC Cosmetics, a cosmetics manufacturer founded in Toronto in 1984 by Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo?
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RuPaul's Drag Race (season 1) The first season of "RuPaul's Drag Race", later referred to as "The Lost Season", premiered in the United States on February 2, 2009, on VH-1. Nine contestants were selected to compete in the running of becoming "America's Next Drag Superstar." The first season was filmed during the summer of 2008. The winner of the first season won a lifetime supply of MAC Cosmetics, was featured in an LA Eyeworks campaign, joined the Logo Drag Race tour, and won a cash prize of $20,000. One of the nine contestants to compete on "RuPaul's Drag Race" was determined by an audience vote via the show's official website. The results were announced in early September 2008. The theme song playing during the runway every episode was "Cover Girl" from RuPaul's album "Champion". This season and season one of All-Stars are the only seasons to not feature the "Snatch Game."
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MAC Cosmetics MAC Cosmetics, stylized as M·A·C, is a cosmetics manufacturer founded in Toronto in 1984 by Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo. The company is headquartered in New York City and became part of the Estée Lauder Companies in 1998. MAC is an abbreviation for "Make-up Art Cosmetics".
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Ports International Ports 1961, also known as Ports, is a Canadian luxury fashion house that was founded by Canadian fashion designer Luke Tanabe (1920–2009) in Toronto in 1961. It specializes in luxury ready-to-wear and accessories for men and women.
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Frank D'Angelo Frank D'Angelo (born April 23, 1959) is a Canadian entrepreneur in the beverage industry. He is the founder of D'Angelo Brands and Steelback Brewery and is host to "The Being Frank Show", a weekly Canadian late night variety talk show. D'Angelo is also the writer, producer, director, and star of several films produced through his In Your Ear Productions.
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Zaldy Zaldy Goco (born 1966), also known mononymously as Zaldy, is a Filipino American fashion designer. In 1995, he was featured as a model in a British television advertisement for Levi's. Zaldy was named one of "Out" magazine's Out 100 in 2006. He was the costume designer for Michael Jackson's "This Is It" tour, Lady Gaga's "Monster Ball Tour, and Britney Spears's "Femme Fatale Tour". Zaldy designed the costumes for the Cirque du Soleil shows "", "", and "Volta". He was also the head designer for Gwen Stefani's fashion line L.A.M.B. He has received two Emmy nominations, winning one in 2017, for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming due to his work on "RuPaul's Drag Race".
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Fat Face Fat Face is a lifestyle clothing and accessories retailer, based in the UK. It was founded in 1988 by Tim Slade and Jules Leaver as a business selling T-shirts at ski resorts. The company opened its first retail shop in 1993; as of 2014 there were 209 Fat Face stores in the UK and Ireland.
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Adore Delano Danny Noriega, better known by the stage name Adore Delano (born circa 1990), is an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, YouTuber, and actor. Delano first appeared as a contestant on the seventh season of "American Idol" in 2008 as Danny Noriega. Adore Delano went on to compete in the sixth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race", becoming a favourite among fans and ultimately making it into the final three. She released her debut studio album "Till Death Do Us Party" in 2014, followed by her second studio album "After Party" in 2016.
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Canadian Tire Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited is a Canadian retail company which sells a wide range of automotive, sports and leisure, and home products. Some stores also sell toys and food products. Retail operations include: Canadian Tire, the core retail and automotive service operation, which operates a large car repair garage in each store; Canadian Tire Petroleum; Mark's, a men’s, women’s, and work apparel retailer; sporting goods and sportswear retail conglomerate FGL Sports; and PartSource, which retails auto parts and accessories. The company's head office is in Toronto, Ontario. The retailer is known for its Canadian Tire money, a loyalty program first introduced in 1958, where customers are provided with coupons resembling paper money worth 0.4% of their purchase that can be used in subsequent purchases as scrip at Canadian Tire stores and gas stations, and some merchants in flea markets.
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Detroit Fashion Week Detroit Fashion Week is a week-long event that presents Michigan clothing designers and showcases modeling talent in the Metro Detroit region. Founded and produced by Brian Heath in 2005, the garment industry in Detroit observed fashion week from Monday, August 8, 2005 to Saturday, August 13, 2005, with fringe events that were open on Sunday, August 14, 2005, including a trunk show. Almost all events occurred at the 4731 Gallery, named for its street address at 4731 Grand River Avenue. The fourth floor of the 4731 building housed the runway events. Detroit Fashion Week 2007 was held at the Hotel St. Regis. The annual event has been held annually in and around the city of Detroit and has had designers from across the United States as well as models from major agencies and Americas Next Top Model participant Bianca Golden. Produced from Los Angeles, California since 2013.
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Cherylanne DeVita Cherylanne DeVita, Ph.D. (born December 6, 1957 in New York City) is a businesswoman in natural skin care industry, national lecturer and media personality. She is the founder and CEO of DeVita Natural Skin Care and Color Cosmetics (DeVita International, Inc.)
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Richard Hudnut Richard Alexander Hudnut (June 2, 1855- October 30, 1928) was an American businessman recognized as the first American to achieve international success in cosmetics manufacturing. The company once maintained separate US and European headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York City and on the Rue de la Paix in Paris, respectively.
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American (album) American is the eleventh studio album by American singer and drag queen, RuPaul. The album was released on March 24, 2017, to coincide with the premiere of the ninth season of "RuPaul's Drag Race". RuPaul has said that the album is influenced by the 2016 United States presidential election.
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RuPaul's Drag Race (season 8) The eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race began airing on March 7, 2016. Returning judges include RuPaul and Michelle Visage, along with Ross Mathews and Carson Kressley, who shared judging responsibilities on an alternating basis. Twelve drag queens competed for the title of "America's Next Drag Superstar". The prizes for the winner are a one-year supply of Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics and a cash prize of $100,000. The full list of contestants was revealed during the NewNowNext Awards on February 1, 2016. The song "U Wear It Well" from RuPaul's album "Butch Queen" was featured in promotion for the show. On March 31, 2016, it was announced LogoTV renewed the show for a ninth season. It was the last season to solely be played on Logo, as the show moved to VH1 for its ninth season, and Season 2 was broadcast simultaneously on VH1.
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Anna Sui Anna Sui (Traditional Chinese: 蕭志美, Simplified: 萧志美, pinyin: Xiāo Zhìměi, Japanese: アナスイ) (born August 4, 1952) is an American fashion designer from Detroit. She was named one of the "Top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade" and in 2009 earned the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), joining the ranks of Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Diane von Furstenberg. Her brand categories include several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyewear, jewelry, accessories, home goods and a gifts line. Anna Sui products are sold through her free-standing stores and distributors around the world in over 50 countries. In 2006, "Fortune" estimated the collective value of Sui's fashion empire at over $400 million.
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Yves Rocher Yves Rocher (7 April 1930 – 26 December 2009) was a French businessman and founder of the cosmetics company that bears his name. He was a pioneer of the modern use of natural ingredients in cosmetics.
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Butch Queen Butch Queen is the tenth studio album from singer and drag queen, RuPaul. It was released on March 4, 2016, just three days prior to the eighth season premiere of "RuPaul's Drag Race". The album features guest appearances from Ellis Miah, Ts Madison and Taylor Dayne, among others.
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Morgan McMichaels Morgan McMichaels (May 28, 1981) is the female persona of British-American drag performer Thomas White. McMichaels is best known as a reality television contestant on the second season of the cable television reality competition "RuPaul's Drag Race".
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BenDeLaCreme BenDeLaCreme is an American burlesque and drag performer from Seattle, Washington. She is known for being a contestant on Season 6 of RuPaul's Drag Race, for her solo shows "Terminally Delightful" and "Cosmos", and as co-creator and host of burlesque revues "Freedom Fantasia" and "Homo for the Holidays."
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Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson (born August 26, 1963) is the winner of the 1988 Miss America Pageant. She is from Monroe, Michigan, where a street is now named for her.
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Top Chef Canada Top Chef Canada is a Canadian reality competition television series. The show premiered on April 11, 2011 on Food Network Canada. The first season consisted of 13 episodes, with 16 contestants vying for a grand prize of $100,000 and a GE Monogram kitchen valued at $30,000. Contestants shopped at Loblaws in season one and McEwan in season two. Like the original American series, each week the chef contestants compete against each other in culinary challenges. Contestants are judged by a panel of professional chefs and other notables from the food and wine industry, with one or more contestants being eliminated each week. The Canadian edition uses the same graphics and music as the American version of the program.
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Stila Stila Cosmetics is an American cosmetics company founded in 1994. The cosmetics line was created by makeup artist Jeanine Lobell. The name Stila (pronounced STEE-la) was derived from the Swedish word "stil," which can mean "style". Stila's official website is quoted as saying that they chose that name because they believe "every woman’s makeup should be as individual as her own signature". Jeanine Lobell writes on her blog that, "We kind of just made up the name, ‘Stila.’ It sounds sort of like stil in Swedish, which means style." Lobell grew up in Sweden.
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Rimmel Rimmel (commonly known as Rimmel London) is a British-manufactured cosmetics brand, now owned by Coty, Inc. The House of Rimmel was founded by Eugène Rimmel as a perfumery in 1834 in Regent Street, London, England.