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After graduation, she moved to London, where she worked as a window dresser.

Instead she worked as a counter assistant in a chemist and as a window dresser before focussing on raising her family.

She got kicked out of a succession of schools, then married an openly gay window dresser named John Parker at the age of 19 — a marriage that was, unsurprisingly, short-lived.

“I can channel the artistry as the window dresser Molina and exude the seductive allure of his muse and tormentor the Spider Woman and honor the diva saviors of my youth: Chita, Conchita and Vanessa!”

There was a time in the early 1980s, she once recalled, when she found herself sprinting across the street to a neighboring specialty store and accosting a young window dresser.