Ahead of Alternative Miss World’s 50th-anniversary event, the British artist and sculptor shares his memories of the “pansexual beauty pageant” that has featured Derek Jarman, Leigh Bowery, Stephen Jones, and more
entered. “That was the first time Leigh Bowery was on stage,” remembers Logan, “I think AMW brings people like that alive, they think: ‘I can do this!’ It inspires them to create.”Over the next two decades, Alternative Miss World popped up at the Clapham Grand, The Hippodrome and the Roundhouse, with hosts including Richard O’Brien, Julian Clary and Ruby Wax, before settling at its current home of the Globe in 2014 with artistas co-host.
No longer quite the impromptu underground fiasco it started as, this year’s anniversary event sold out online in minutes.muses Logan. Still, he maintains that Alternative Miss World retains its spontaneity – “I never really know who is entering apart from Janet,” he says – and also its intimacy; “the good thing about The Globe is that you can stand right beneath the stage.
that inspired it, a sentiment that was informed by his group of friends in the 1970s when the competition first began; these include Rhodes, and the London designers Thea Porter and Ossie Clarke. After the 50th anniversary event is over, Logan is planning a photo book cataloguing the best of the contestants’ costumes over the years, and hopes to keep hosting the pageant in his trademark host outfit, which is based on an old British variety show costume he found in a jumble sale.
The 2022 edition of Alternative Miss World will take place on October 28 at 7pm. You can watch the livestream
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