Queen Slugtoinette

Viva La SLUG Queens

Eugene has a new Old SLUG Queen! She’s Queen Marie Slugtoinette, the “Art” Duchess of slime. She credited her win to the “execution” of her excellent bribes and not losing her head during the performance of her parody song.

Slugtoinette wore an exquisite handmade gown designed and stitched by UO professor Margery Taylor, to echo the over the top drama of Marie Antoinette’s fashion with a Sluggy and camp twist. Made with over 30 yards of satin and taffita fabrics in mostly slug browns and greens, the gown was trimmed with slug like animal print, vibrant hot pink and lots of irridecent “slime”. The homemade panier understructure gives Slugtoinette 45″ wide hips and the triple-decker wig she sewed together and festooned with slugs, slime and jewel encrusted creepy crawlies from the garden sets her at nearly 8 feet tall. Her 8 feet trail of slime was lifted and carried by her petite slugettes who wore sluggy princess dresses designed from the left over fabric of the gown.

Queen Slugtoinette thought her intense bribes, complex sluggy dress complete with slime trails, and comic song routine would make being crowned a piece of “cake”—but she was nearly toppled by a spectacular performance by the Sluggy Diva “Lady Slugdiva” who rode in on a slug spotted horse and channeled Janice Joplin in a sultry slug lace version of “SummerSlime”. Vered! (Her greener version of the French “mered”!) A nail biting moment ensued before the victor was announced and Slugtoinette was officially crowned. Drama!

You might remember Slugtoinette’s alter ego, designer Constance Van Flandern from her work coining the term Alpha Mom” for a branding project in 2003…
or for her comprehensive branding work for the critically acclaimed Children’s Furnishing Boutique in Seattle, WA. called “tottini” or her years as a designer for film and television in New York where she designed props and sets for Comedy Central and Nickelodeon –even for Animal Planet’s “Pet Psychic”! (Did the Pet Psychic know about the Slugs in her future?)

Of course, she occasionally found herself on the other side of the camera, like in the Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello short film “Shock Asylum” (1997), or a dozen episodes of Comedy Central’s Upright Citizen’s Brigade with Amy Poehler, or Exit 57 with Amy Sedaris, Dinello and Colbert.

But it wasn’t until she moved to Eugene in 2002 that she really discovered the “Slimelight”. Once she oozed her way to the mic she had to be pryed off it by the Old Queens as she exceeded the 3 minute time limit (the exception to “NO RULES” rule that makes it a rule) to her song medley.

Now that she has been crowned SLUG Queen at last, Slugtoinette is on a mission to make the SLUG Queen available to all of Eugene at anytime–by having a bronze sculpture of a fabulous Slug Queen placed in the Rhododendron Garden at Hendrick’s Park. Read more about her Adopt-A-Slug campaign here. Want your Slug Queen now? Be sure to let the Mayor and the city council know you’d like to see this Bronze Slug Queen find a garden home for all to visit in Eugene!

For more check out the article on Slugtoinette in the Eugene Weekly.

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