Emmy Award Winning Costume Designer and Visual Artist Diego Montoya’s designs are heavily inspired by New York’s vibrant queer community. Peruvian-born, Miami-raised, and Brooklyn-based, Montoya is a key artistic voice in the world of drag fashion where he's been working for the past twenty years. With ebullient colours, staggering textures, and architectural designs that push the bounds of wearable art, his craft explores ideas of camp, identity and transformation. In 2016, Diego Montoya’s career exploded after a collaboration with high art drag queen Sasha Velour. Velour wore looks designed by Diego Montoya for her performances on season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, going on to win the competition in an ornate dress and intricate ‘egg’ mask crafted by Montoya. Inspired by Velour’s nickname, “The Fabergé Egg Queen,” a moniker referring to Velour’s signature drag look