More than 35,000 sickening guests flocked to Manhattan’s Jacob K. Javits Center for the inaugural RuPaul's DragCon NYC, created and produced by World of Wonder Productions, to kiki with the most revered queens in the business, watch some of the fiercest glamazons stomp the runway, and of course, spill the tea with their squirrel friends. The event brought together some of the most amazing artists to show off their work and make some coin selling a flurry of T-shirts, pins, and more. Fans from all over showed up to the event wearing gear representing their favorite queen, with plenty also showing up in their best drag — suffice to say, everyone was looking absolutely (Gia Gunn voice) marvelous.

Guests also got to sit in to a number of panels, including "Drag Does Fashion Week: A Fashion Affair," in which Naomi Smalls demonstrated her supermodel walk, and "Judgy Judies: Behind the Judge's Bench," where Michelle Visage RuVealed so many gag-worthy tidbits. Of course, the royalty of the event was the drag queens themselves, who fans got to take many a selfie and new profile pics with.

While the convention itself was a downright party, we have to admit that the lighting in there was, as Trixie Mattel would put it, "homophobic." But thankfully, world-renowned photographer Jeremy Kost was there to pluck some of the queens out of the convention center for one eleganza extravaganza photo shoot for Teen Vogue.

"My work historically has always been about sort of pulling the sort of character outside of the nightclub and sort of looking at them in sort of nontraditional, daytime settings in a sense of like what that represents, what does it mean for this almost quasi-private performance," Jeremy told Teen Vogue. "I thought that to do that in the convention center would be no different than what anybody else was doing and to do it with a more consistent focus of what I do as an artist would be a bit more special sort of a bit more in line with who I am and celebrating them as individual characters."

But nailing down time to photograph a dozen of queens proved to be no easy feat. Jeremy pointed out that with how busy these artists have become with the explosion of drag culture in the world, it can be challenging to get some time with these queens — especially during DragCon, when their time is in demand even more than normal. But thankfully, the photographer was able to wrangle down a number of these fabulous queens for a shoot that's sure to go down in herstory. Check out some of the pictures and Jeremy's thoughts on working with each queen:

"Detox and I have worked together since 2011, before Drag Race, before Instagram fandom, whatever. So for us, it's a totally different experience when you've shot somebody 15 times. You know it's sort of like you just get right back on the horse and you sort of knock it out. We were both a bit rough after Friday and Saturday, but I don't think it shows."