Jaida Essence Hall still has all of her Drag Race season 12 looks ready for her own museum

"What is a good price to charge somebody to get into a museum? $400?" Jaida ponders to EW.

I mean, it's one ticket, gals. What could it cost? According to RuPaul's Drag Race winner and upcoming All Stars 7 contestant Jaida Essence Hall and her totally-not-serious fantasy of opening a fashion museum dedicated to herself: several hundred dollars.

"I have every single thing that I wore on RuPaul's Drag Race season 12 still in my closet because of one little thing: corona, baby…. they're just all in my house, most still in the basement, most of it still not even unboxed from photoshoots. It's still just there. Maybe I should sell everything, maybe I can make an archive of things. Is that a thing?" Jaida jokes in a video interview for our AS7 cover story. "Maybe a museum! And I could charge people money to get in. What is a good price to charge somebody to get into a museum? $400?"

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Jaida Essence Hall for EW. Vijat M for EW

It's a small price to pay considering the impact Jaida had on season 12. Not only did she take a crown and the $100,000 prize, she proudly wore the title of "Trade of the Season" through to the following year as well.

"I was the trade of season 12 and then even when I wasn't there, I was the trade of season 13, too," she explains. "And now I'm the trade of all-winners."

Jaida's physicality isn't the only thing fans will marvel at on All Stars 7. Shortly after winning in 2020, she told EW she wanted to be an example of excellence for Black children to look up to, and remains optimistic that the world her visible victory helped usher in will hold up on the season ahead.

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Jaida Essence Hall is 'RuPaul's Drag Race' season 12 winner. VH1

"You can tell by the sign of the times that things are moving forward. Even after winning, [I] could see the way so many people showed up for everything that was happening in the world [after the murder of] George Floyd, that immediately made me feel, hopefully, things can be better in the world," she says. "To see so many different people from so many different places, people that I love that before might not have spoken up about it, go out to rallies and protests and stand up for people like myself, it just made me feel super hopeful. Even in the Drag Race fanbase where sometimes there is a lot of negativity from some of the people who are fans of the show, [I] could tell people opened up a little bit more and were more in touch with people's feelings and emotions. In the world, we need more of that. The more we consider other people's feeling sand the more we think of other people around us as ourselves, the better we can be to ourselves and to the world."

Find out how Jaida fares on the AS7 competition against fellow champions Raja, Jinkx Monsoon, Yvie Oddly, Monét X Change, Trinity The Tuck, The Vivienne, and Shea Couleé when RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars returns to Paramount+ on May 20. Watch Jaida's full solo interview above, and read EW's cover story here.

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