{"id":357472,"date":"2024-04-17T02:51:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T01:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.co.uk\/?p=357472"},"modified":"2024-04-18T01:10:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T00:10:48","slug":"for-honey-balenciaga-dancing-was-just-her-first-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/fashion\/for-honey-balenciaga-dancing-was-just-her-first-act\/","title":{"rendered":"For Honey Balenciaga, dancing was just her first act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world-touring ballroom titan and Beyonc\u00e9-anointed star has a &#8220;new era&#8221; incoming.<\/p>\n<p>WORDS BY<strong> MIKELLE STREET<br \/>\n<\/strong>PHOTOGRAPHY <strong>BREANNA JOHNSON<\/strong> and <strong>DEONTE LEE\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BFA_44482_6272366-1-scaled.jpg\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m not your average model,\u201d Honey Gonzales says, perched on a stool with a printed kimono wrapped around her shoulders, exposing her d\u00e9colletage. \u201cI\u2019m cunt!\u201d she emphasizes. There\u2019s a pause before she looks at me again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCan I say that in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GAY TIMES<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?\u201d Well, we\u2019ll find out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though it\u2019s a dreary Thursday afternoon, Honey\u2019s mug is anything but. Her makeup is being carefully applied (by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tiffanytheeartist\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tiffany the Artist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/gaycenter.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s annual gala: a who\u2019s who of queer talent fundraising over $1.3 million dollars for the New York City institution. Honey\u2019s invite, and fit, came by way of Jean Paul Gaultier who was one of the night\u2019s honorees. A nude, flower-embroidered dress and asymmetrical coat hangs swaddled in a garment bag in the closet of the Brooklyn apartment where she\u2019s getting ready.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You undoubtedly know her by her stage name, Honey Balenciaga. And if you don\u2019t know her, you\u2019ve at least seen her: likely in one of the many viral videos of her voguing. Or, there\u2019s a possibility you\u2019ve spotted a clip from her appearances in two seasons of the ballroom competition show <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legendary <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the platform formerly known as HBOMax. Or better yet, you\u2019ve at the very least spotted her dipping in shoddy iPhone footage from Beyonce\u2019s Renaissance tour, or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.co.uk\/originals\/the-many-faces-of-ballroom-in-beyonces-renaissance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">featured<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the documentary film of the same name. (If she wasn\u2019t dipping, then maybe she was galloping on all fours as her alter ego Alice.) The figure in your mind is impossibly acrobatic, full of contagious energy, often in boots, and almost definitely blonde.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">wake up babe! a new honey balenciaga in kansas city angle just dropped! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D3QVdVhYrD\">pic.twitter.com\/D3QVdVhYrD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0653 (@notherewithme) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notherewithme\/status\/1715479405022130669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s so surreal,\u201d she says of her life at this moment. Coming from the ballroom scene, of which she\u2019s been a part since 2019, houses often borrow their names from renowned ateliers, but now Honey is working with fashion in an official capacity. \u201cI\u2019m using all that I have within me to get where I want to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though to be fair, Gaultier is only the latest brand Honey has worked with. She may have started out by wearing pieces <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CfCwNJzr9ty\/?img_index=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inspired<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by luxury brands, but these days she\u2019s working with them directly. Her relationship with Nike has lasted for years and she\u2019s used it as a way to platform her genderfluid identity, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CWjHDxVgWXE\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">appearing in the women\u2019s ads<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That work has also extended to labels like Coach, Savage X Fenty, Gypsy Sport, and now the good graces of Diesel \u2014 she shows me a few bags they\u2019ve sent over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so, while Honey is a world-touring dancer, her new era as an unlikely fashion model and influencer is about showing she can be more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tiffany styles the performer\u2019s locks into wet, swirling finger waves. They aren\u2019t the blonde you may remember, but are black, a color Honey chose after coming back from tour to signal the aforementioned new era. It all fits perfectly in line with the darkly sexy persona she\u2019s been cultivating recently. She normally opts for latex or bondage-inspired pieces to enhance that vibe, but the Gaultier, hiked up just a little to reveal a few extra inches of thigh, provides the necessary sex appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When she reaches to unbox her first pair of Louboutins \u2014 the Follies Strass suede pumps, if you\u2019re curious \u2014\u00a0she tells me she\u2019d only bought them a few hours before.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStiletto pumps are becoming my new thing,\u201d she says. It\u2019s a revelation, given her now infamous spat with Law Roach on<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Legendary <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when she was given a shoe that wasn\u2019t a boot to perform in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m getting into pumps more than boots now. There\u2019s something more classy about them. With boots it\u2019s giving very \u2018bangy cunt.\u2019\u201d Later she tells me that after growing up revering the likes of Amanda Lepore wearing red bottoms on the red carpet, she knew she needed a pair after wearing some for the first time in a film for a fashion brand that hasn\u2019t been released yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BFA_44485_6274894-scaled.jpg\" \/><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gaytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/BFA_44485_6274895-scaled.jpg\" \/><\/p><p><em><\/em><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Uber to Cipriani\u2019s Wall Street where we\u2019ll rush Honey through the carpet and to her table, Honey applies her lipstick. A fan of her naturally pink lips, she often opts for a color from Kosas that she says reads natural on camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to be in a movie,\u201d she remarks of one of her eventual goals. With her background as a dancer leading to her ascension in fashion, Honey has her eyes set on bringing these talents to television and film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m trying to moreso be a chameleon and let people know that I can transform into as many beings, with so many talents, and fit into so many spaces,\u201d she says \u2014 it\u2019s the thrust behind her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=piv34OMYFmg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">video series \u201cHidden Gems\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which uses dance as a tool of character building and storytelling. \u201cI\u2019m in the process of redefining myself. When I went on tour, I got closer to God. I had never been more sure of myself. So I wanted to use that drive and that energy to transform myself into a different field of art.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We chat about how moving to LA gave her a requisite freedom that in turn sparked her love for fashion. \u201cI needed to get out of New York,\u201d she says, but has since let go of her place on the West Coast and is considering whether to go back to NYC or just travel indefinitely.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI just want to keep breaking barriers,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to keep breaking <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">my<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> barriers.\u201d After a second, she states it plainly:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI just want to be a star.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world-touring ballroom titan and Beyonc\u00e9-anointed star has a &#8220;new era&#8221; incoming. 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