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Tammy Faye Bakker. Thierry Mugler. Leigh Bowery.
These three figures come from extremely different worlds — televangelism, couture fashion and drag performance art, respectively — and yet all of them inform the singularly bizarre and flamboyant style on “The Righteous Gemstones,” a raucous satire of Southern megachurch bigwigs that ends its four-season run on Sunday. (The show is a property of HBO, which shares parent company Warner Bros. Discovery with CNN.)
The titular Gemstones, three wealthy adult siblings who’ve inherited their parents’ booming megachurch and TV operation in South Carolina, are “always on stage,” said costume designer…
