Chappell Roan donates tour costumes to raise money for Missouri LGBTQ community
Chappell Roan is known as much for her elaborate drag queen and vintage-inspired stage costumes as her music.
She’s dressed as Joan of Arc in a suit of armor, been the Statue of Liberty complete with spiky headdress. There’s fringe, lots of fringe, fishnet stockings, sequins, feathers, cowboy hats and boots.
Earlier this year a costume she donated to raise money for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires was the highest-selling among celebrity items.
Now she has donated two original costumes from her Midwest Princess Tour to raise money for the LGBTQIA+ community in southwest Missouri where she was raised in Willard, near Springfield.
The proceeds will benefit the Springfield Black Tie, the largest LGBTQIA+ fundraising event in that part of the state, which announced the donation this week.
The event’s website displays two costumes: a heavily sequined blue cowgirl outfit with short shorts, a halter top with prominently placed stars, fringed arm bands and matching cowboy hat, also covered with stars.
The second costume is her “Pink Pony Club” look — a red one-piece leotard covered with pink sequin hearts that also embellish a matching cowboy hat.
Fans will get to see that fabulous fashion in action when Roan brings her “Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things” pop-up show to Kansas City on Friday, Oct. 3, and Saturday, Oct. 4., one of only three cities to host the limited tour.
The costumes will be auctioned by Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, an auction house that specializes in celebrity memorabilia.
Julien’s also handled the auction for wildfire victims earlier this year where Roan’s vintage sequined marching band unitard and size 7 Jeffrey Campbell knee-high boots from her “Hot to Go” video sold for $88,950.
Underestimating the power of Roan, the auction house had predicted the costume, which Roan also wore on stage, would sell for $1,000 to $2,000.
She also donated a purple two-piece ensemble that sold for $22,225 and green platform Marc Jacobs boots that raised another $6,350, according to People.
In a statement, Springfield Black Tie organizer Amy Tignor praised Roan for staying connected to her hometown, which the singer featured in her “Hot to Go” video.
The pop star has donated ticket sale proceeds and concert profits to groups that support the LGBTQ community, especially those in her native Missouri. She has donated ticket proceeds to trans youth centers in cities where she has performed.
Last year she donated tour profits to The GLO Center in Springfield, an LGBTQ community center that used some of the money to support LGBTQ art in the Ozarks to honor the “path Chappell Roan herself has embarked,” the center’s leader said.
Proceeds from the Black Tie event help support local nonprofits that support and provide services to the local LGBTQIA+ community. The event has raised more than $2.3 million for those causes thus far.
This year’s event takes place Nov. 5 at the Oasis Hotel and Convention Center in Springfield.
“As diversity programs are rolled back and funding disappears, it’s local support that keeps critical services going,” Tignor said in her statement.
Dates of the costume auction and starting bids will be revealed in the next few weeks. For more information, go to springfieldblacktie.org or juliensauctions.com.
This story was originally published August 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM.
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