My name is Blake McCabe and I am a designer; a person with a vision, a creative vision. A vision where one can dress up in bright colors and wild prints that make you pop out so much people have no choice but to compliments your attire. Outfits that build confidence and positivity: something that we all deserve in life.

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              It had all started around the age of  12 with my love for the costumes and fashions from the movie ‘Titanic’, a young Kate Winslett in a fitted women’s white and purple pinstripe Edwardian day wear suit and an oversized matching purple hat. I found myself drawing the costumes from a filmography book I had found and soon after I began mixing and matching ensembles. I played with other color combinations with the same costumes and began working with my own silhouettes and styles. From there it progressed into wanting to learn how to sew. My mom has been doing home sewing all of my childhood for my sister and I so naturally she was my "go to" person to teach me. By the time I was 14 I had learned how to sew the basics and would do what I could on sewing projects while my mom did some of the more complicated tasks.

 

                In my sophomore year in high school, my mom took me fabric and pattern shopping to create my date's gown and a matching vest for myself. I was shocked at how little outfit coordination mattered to middle school and high school dance dates and I was determined that would not be the case for me.  From that point on it was pretty common for my date, myself, or both of us to attend dances and other functions in attire sewn up by yours truly. That was still only the beginning.

 

                My compassion and interest in sewing continued to grow as I expanded my knowledge and my art. I took interest in the costume shop for local musical theatre, and began looking into further schooling after graduation. I never believed that a school could make an artist, but I knew it would play a large roll in learning how to perfect my craft. Two weeks after having graduated from high school in 2011, I began summer classes for fashion design in Seattle. In college I made sure to dedicate as much of my time as possible towards my craft in design. No matter the time I arrived at school I poured myself into my passion, picking up whatever knowledge particles I could whether it be using the sewing lab, the library resources, computers, photography students, or school design competitions. 

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                In my third year at Fashion Design school, I began to pick up an interest in the art of drag performance. I made the decision to branch off in the direction of drag costuming which would eventually be what put my foot in the door for custom designs! No one feels less shame in wearing whatever-you-want than a Drag artist, especially drag queens.

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 “When a gay man has way too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag queen.”

-To Wong Foo (1995)

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                I slowly started working with drag queens as models and as clients for competitions as well as personal business. I also started taking interest in the art of drag as I began working with them as clientele. I connected with a well known drag performance family in the Seattle area who graciously welcomed me in with open arms. As  I became a part of their drag family, I was able to begin building and creating costumes for Drag Queens. I began performing in my own outfits while other pieces were showcased by my drag family and other local artists. From this point it was just a matter of market reach and building a clientele that would not only have my back but help showcase my product in most fabulous manner! The stage! In just a short time I went from Blake the designer to Blake McCabe a designer with a drag hobby. 

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                  My repertoire includes simple colorful leotards, extravagant gowns, complex characters, high fashion attire, celebrity impersonation designs, to intense Disney character costumes and pieces. These days my work can be easily found in the drag scene in the Pacific Northwest but has reached many other states outside of my little corner up here in Washington! Here within this website you can find many, but not all images of my designs and work from over the years since my graduation from Fashion Design school back in 2014. Please enjoy! 

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