Zaldy was named one of Out magazine's Out 100 in 2006.
10 Facts About Zaldy
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Zaldy was the costume designer for Michael Jackson's This Is It concerts, Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour, and Britney Spears's Femme Fatale Tour.
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Zaldy designed the costumes for the Cirque du Soleil shows Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour, Michael Jackson: One, and Volta.
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Zaldy has received five Emmy nominations, winning in 2017,2018, and 2019 for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming due to his work on RuPaul's Drag Race.
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Zaldy was born in Cheshire, Connecticut; his first name is Salvador but his parents called him Zaldy from birth.
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Zaldy was a student at Parsons School of Design in the 1980s, though he completed his studies in 1990 at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Zaldy walked runways for Thierry Mugler, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Vivienne Westwood modeling women's clothing; he modeled men's clothing in a Japanese advertising campaign for Paul Smith.
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Zaldy later designed the costumes for the Japanese band Exile.
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Zaldy has three other team members and an assortment of other craftspeople such as painters, beaders, and graphic designers.
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Zaldy received a third nomination in this category in 2018 for the season 10 premiere "10s Across the Board".