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POTASSA'S EXQUISITE SWAN NECK--AND I LOVE THAT HEAVY DISCO ROUGE!
In my earlier Grace Jones at Studio 54 post, I queried readers about Potassa, a reigning queen at the club. And who should come to my aid but Scott Ewalt, the super-designer whose images have adorned Suzanne Bartsch invites, Wigstock posters and album covers galore. He sent me this hot pic of Potassa and wrote:
hey bunbun-potassa was a 70's queen that was very close with chrysis and was a halston model- the first queen that he used. she introduced chrysis to dali (much to amanda lears dissaproval as noted in her book) and erte. potassa was also included in warhols "ladies and gentleman" drag portrait series, and got a full page in andy warhols exposures book-see attatchment.
POTASSA=HOT!
And Scott had even more vintage tranny tea to pour. International Chrysis was a stunning transsexual who appeared with other trannies on the cover of a Kool and The Gang album cover for HOLLYWOOD SWINGING. Chrysis never liked me much, and couldn't understand the popularity of the artsy booger queens who ruled the Pyramid Club when she was so much more beautiful than them. She once did a show at the Pyramid and left a gorgeous feather boa in the dressing room. It sat there for weeks. I was quite poor in those days (as to opposed to simply poor in these days) and a luxurious, abandoned boa was simply too much to resist, especially since my thrift store wardrobe so desperately needed sprucing up. I gave into temptation and threw it on. After several cocktails, I felt so fancy that I high-tailed it over to The Boybar, which featured much more polished queens than we Pyramid clowns, to show off my new look. Who should be there see my grand if drunken entrance but the boa's owner itself!
KOOL AND THE GANG'S HOLLYWOOD SWINGING ALBUM COVER SHOT WITH CHRYSIS ON THE FAR RIGHT
Of course, I shopped for vintage vinyl non-stop in those days and had already seen the cover and spooked the fact that the models were "girls with something extra". I clocked that album before I ever met Chrysis so when I spied her at Danceteria, I ran up excitedly and asked if she was on a Kool and The Gang cover. She could barely disguise her displeasure, so we got started on the wrong size 10 foot. I realized later on that since the album was released in 1973 and it was probably 1985 at the time, so Miss Thing might have thought that I was making a crack about her age. (I was about 22 at the time.) I wasn't making a crack, but she remained quite chilly for years, I guess until she realized that I simply wasn't going away. And possibly that she wanted to perform at Wigstock.
CHRYSIS: GORGEOUS EVEN WHEN STYLED AS A DISCO DYKE--WITH ONE INDIVIDUAL BOTTOM LASH AND A SEVERE MIGRAINE!
In my earlier Grace Jones at Studio 54 post, I queried readers about Potassa, a reigning queen at the club. And who should come to my aid but Scott Ewalt, the super-designer whose images have adorned Suzanne Bartsch invites, Wigstock posters and album covers galore. He sent me this hot pic of Potassa and wrote:
hey bunbun-potassa was a 70's queen that was very close with chrysis and was a halston model- the first queen that he used. she introduced chrysis to dali (much to amanda lears dissaproval as noted in her book) and erte. potassa was also included in warhols "ladies and gentleman" drag portrait series, and got a full page in andy warhols exposures book-see attatchment.
POTASSA=HOT!
And Scott had even more vintage tranny tea to pour. International Chrysis was a stunning transsexual who appeared with other trannies on the cover of a Kool and The Gang album cover for HOLLYWOOD SWINGING. Chrysis never liked me much, and couldn't understand the popularity of the artsy booger queens who ruled the Pyramid Club when she was so much more beautiful than them. She once did a show at the Pyramid and left a gorgeous feather boa in the dressing room. It sat there for weeks. I was quite poor in those days (as to opposed to simply poor in these days) and a luxurious, abandoned boa was simply too much to resist, especially since my thrift store wardrobe so desperately needed sprucing up. I gave into temptation and threw it on. After several cocktails, I felt so fancy that I high-tailed it over to The Boybar, which featured much more polished queens than we Pyramid clowns, to show off my new look. Who should be there see my grand if drunken entrance but the boa's owner itself!
KOOL AND THE GANG'S HOLLYWOOD SWINGING ALBUM COVER SHOT WITH CHRYSIS ON THE FAR RIGHT
Of course, I shopped for vintage vinyl non-stop in those days and had already seen the cover and spooked the fact that the models were "girls with something extra". I clocked that album before I ever met Chrysis so when I spied her at Danceteria, I ran up excitedly and asked if she was on a Kool and The Gang cover. She could barely disguise her displeasure, so we got started on the wrong size 10 foot. I realized later on that since the album was released in 1973 and it was probably 1985 at the time, so Miss Thing might have thought that I was making a crack about her age. (I was about 22 at the time.) I wasn't making a crack, but she remained quite chilly for years, I guess until she realized that I simply wasn't going away. And possibly that she wanted to perform at Wigstock.
CHRYSIS: GORGEOUS EVEN WHEN STYLED AS A DISCO DYKE--WITH ONE INDIVIDUAL BOTTOM LASH AND A SEVERE MIGRAINE!
posted by Lady Bunny at Saturday, January 13, 2007
1 Comments:
Does anyone know what happened to Potassa ? I have a friend who used to hang out with Potassa and she really would like to know.
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