Nearly New

What strikes me about Amanda Lepore is how she’s stayed exactly the same while everything around her changed. The makeup, the nightclubs, the whole vision of who she is—she committed to it and never wavered. You watch enough nightlife and you see everyone constantly adjusting themselves, chasing trends, trying out new identities. But she just stayed put. That kind of constancy looks almost defiant from where I’m sitting, like she understood something about authenticity that everyone else is still figuring out.