Photograph by Felipe Abe
The world is a mighty complex place these days - as it ever was. At least as time passes, we're able to become more and more open and able to celebrate the banquet of diversity that we are as a society in 2009 than we were in 1959, or even ten years back in 1999. It's this very diversity that allows us to become ever richer - culturally, creatively and personally. Not to mention perhaps rich or famous or at the very least, bestow you a few freebies from fashion designers.
A perfect example of this is Luke Caswell - you can call him Cazwell. We first heard about him as the rapper who released hit single 'I Seen Beyonce at Burger King' when he made an appearance on the cult series RuPaul's Drag Race. There, he helped the final three queens lay a track on RuPaul's single 'Cover Girl'. To our delight, we heard that he was going to be playing one of Sao Paulo's parties du jour, VAI! to celebrate their first birthday (parabéns!). So of course we got dolled up and dropped by to have a - admittedly on our part, a wee drunky - chat with the straight talking and totally pin-up worthy Cazwell.
He was refreshingly candid, forthright, down to earth and the epitome of a professional - boy was there to WERK, and werk his modestly self proclaimed 'two left feet' he did. Acutely aware of his reality and unapologetically true to himself, Cazwell proved not only that he isn't simply another novelty on the scene but further more, that he's actually an ambassador for change in the most practical and unpretentious ways possible.
Interview after the jump!
