Elliot Joseph Rentz, a make-up artist and drag queen who goes by the stage title Alexis Stone, remodeled into the Mona Lisa for the debut of Boss’s womenswear Spring/Summer 2026 collection in Milan earlier this week.
Rentz, by way of his drag persona, is widespread on TikTok and Instagram—the place he has 890,000 and 1.3 million followers, respectively—for his elaborate and meticulous transformations into most of the world’s most recognizable celebrities, from a younger Judy Garland to Dolly Parton and Barbara Streisand. He paperwork these transformations with behind-the-scenes movies exhibiting his skilled use of prosthetics, and particular results make-up.
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Whereas there are lots of such make-up influencers on social media, Rentz goes past full face make-up to do complete physique transformations.
Earlier this week, Rentz did simply that to advertise Boss—a sub-brand of Hugo Boss—attending the runway present because the Mona Lisa, although after all dressed within the new assortment, which artistic director Marco Falcioni told WWD was “all about evoking the German sturm and drang.” It was not instantly clear how that tied to the Mona Lisa, however nonetheless, Rentz was placing.
It’s not the primary time that Rentz has remodeled for a style present. He has a made a behavior of exhibiting up at runway reveals, remodeled into a well-known face. He beforehand attended a Balenciaga present in 2022 as Robin Williams’s character in Mrs. Doubtfire after which this 12 months attended as Anjelica Huston-as-Morticia Addams, from the 1991 movie The Addams Household.
In June 2024, Rentz went as The Satan Wears Prada‘s Miranda Priestly, a thinly veiled analogue for style media icon Anna Wintour who was memorably performed by Meryl Streep.
“Manufacturers like to be a part of these viral stunts,” Rentz told CNN of the stunts in July. “It’s, in essence, the last word advertising marketing campaign as a result of it’s this type of shifting billboard, and so many individuals acknowledge these cult or basic characters, having watched them rising up. For manufacturers, it is a approach of being a part of that magic.”
Watch Rentz remodel into the enduring Da Vinci topic right here:
