Dita Von Teese

[texastess]

She has such a vintage look that works for her.

 

[style_expert]

She's very well connected as well. She just has a book out, full of eroticlike pics. I love her. I'm missing her now in Paris at the front row. She's a regular at John Galliano, Dior and Louis Vuitton. In her books she thanks John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier and the folks at Moschino (she actually called them the folks at Moschino, which made me laugh)

 

[LauraC]

There was an article about her in Glamour UK a couple months ago. why people like her so much is her pale skin and her great moves. You know who I can't figure out who she is or why she's famous???? Cloey Sevingy (not sure how to spell her name). I have never seen her in any movies, and yet she's in every fashion magazine and at every fashion event!

I know now is not the time to comment on chloe sevingy but a 5 sec ond google search will tell what she's done career-wise.

1. Catherine and Peter (2007) (pre-production)
2. Zodiac (2006) (filming) .... Graysmith's Girlfriend
3. Lying (2006) (post-production) .... Megan

4. "Big Love" .... Nicki Henrickson
- Episode #1.12 (????) TV Episode .... Nicki Henrickson
5. Mrs. Harris (2005)
6. 3 Needles (2005) .... Clara
7. Broken Flowers (2005) .... Carmen's Assistant
... aka Broken Flowers (USA)
8. Manderlay (2005) .... Philomena
9. Melinda and Melinda (2004) .... Laurel
10. "Will & Grace"
- East Side Story (2004) TV Episode .... Monet
11. Shattered Glass (2003) .... Caitlin Avey
12. The Brown Bunny (2003) .... Daisy
13. Dogville (2003) .... Liz Henson
... aka Dogville (France)
... aka U - Der Film 'Dogville' erzählt in neun Kapiteln und einem Prolog. (Germany)
14. Death of a Dynasty (2003) .... Sexy Woman No. 1
15. Party Monster (2003) .... Gitsie
16. Demonlover (2002) .... Elise Lipsky
17. Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) .... (segment "Int. Trailer Night")
18. If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV) .... Amy (segment "1972")
19. American Psycho (2000) .... Jean

20. A Map of the World (1999) .... Carole Mackessy
... aka Unschuldig verfolgt (Germany)
21. Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) (as Chloe Sevigny) .... Pearl
... aka Dogme # 6 - Julien Donkey-Boy (USA: series title)
... aka Julien Donkey-Boy (USA)
22. Boys Don't Cry (1999) .... Lana Tisdel
23. The Last Days of Disco (1998) .... Alice Kinnon
24. Palmetto (1998) (as Chloe Sevigny) .... Odette
... aka Dumme sterben nicht aus
25. Gummo (1997) .... Dot
26. Trees Lounge (1996) (as Chloe Sevigny) .... Debbie
27. Kids (1995) (as Chloe Sevigny) .... Jennie

If you haven't seen party monster, julian donkey boy, gummo, or kids, you should.

As for Vita, I adore her. Someone commented on the fact that her face was nothing special, but in my opinion that is the beauty of old hollywood glamor. You didn't have to be born with some ridiculous genetic mutation of beauty to become popular, famous, or to be beautiful.

Anyone who has not had the pleasure to see a live burlesque show, I urge you to do so. It puts the women that participate in a whole new light. She is a great entertainer. The most entertainment we get out of stars anymore is them walking down the street with their dog, the pap. snapping a pic and us criticizing their outfits. I'm open for something new, thats for sure.

 

[fashion_victim]

Have her Wheels & Doll Baby ads been posted before? Sorry if they have.



wheelsanddollbaby

 

[fashion_victim]

And found these, taken during Australia week in LA (with the designers of Wheels & Doll Baby, I think.)


same source

 

[jennifer~]

Wow, thanks for all the recent pictures/info! and the not-so-recent ones, as well. If I do pick up her book I'd almost hate to just leave it lying on the coffee table...

 

[Vintage.Vixen]

Thank You!

A big thank you to all that post pictures of Dita on this board. I am a long time fan, member of her site, but dare I say it, I see more pictures of her here then I do on her site (publicity photos, that is!). So thank you much and keep up the good work!!

 

[k5teen]

she look's very photoshopped!is her skin for real?or just make up?
or she's so flawless...imposible!!!!!!!!!!!111

 

[DosViolines]

source: telegraph.co.uk

Art of the Teese
(Filed: 06/03/2006)
Dita von Teese, burlesque artist, retro pin-up and now the wife of Marilyn Manson, has risen from lingerie salesgirl to entertainer of choice at all the best parties. Between wedding and honeymoon, she found time to pose for a series of exclusive drawings by David Downton. Interview by Naomi West


Back when Dita von Teese was approaching her 18th birthday she knew exactly what she wanted to do when she passed that milestone. ‘As soon as I was of legal age I wanted to take my clothes off and be photographed recreating old pin-ups.’

Von Teese – still known then by her birth name, Heather Sweet, and working in a lingerie shop where she had held a position since the age of 15 – arranged a shoot with a photographer who had taken pictures of her older sister for Penthouse, and posed in just a pink and black corset. She gave the pictures to her then-boyfriend for his birthday.

A decade and a half later, the 33-year-old’s enthusiasm for channelling the spirit of the original pin-ups and burlesque performers such as Gypsy Rose Lee, Lili St Cyr and Sally Rand has won her international acclaim. Last year Vanity Fair called her a ‘burlesque superheroine’ for the striptease spectacles she stages at parties and in clubs (bathing in a giant martini glass with an olive-shaped sponge, or emerging from an outsize powder compact in pointe shoes and a marabou tutu).

She has ascended to become an adored insider in the world of high fashion. Jean Paul Gaultier offered her a kid-in-a-candy-store moment last year by inviting her into his couture archive. ‘There were gowns they don’t even let out to the Academy Awards, and Mr Gaultier said, “If you want to wear this stuff to the grocery store, feel free.” ’

Vivienne Westwood, who made the purple silk taffeta wedding gown for her December nuptials to the theatrically dark rock star Marilyn Manson, has described her as ‘mind-boggling, with the smallest waist, like a drawing from a fairytale, like Snow White.’

Von Teese and Manson first met at a Santa Monica vintage-clothing fair in 1999 and, fittingly, their wedding is featured in the current issue of American Vogue. Now that the spotlight has swivelled its full glare upon von Teese, she is making the most of it. She and Manson have not taken a honeymoon yet.

After their wedding, they flew to London to be photographed in a circus-themed shoot for the relaunch issue of Harper’s Bazaar, and she is busy promoting her new book, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese, stacked with lavish photos. ‘It’s not anything deep, just a fun book with great pictures. I dust off some characters in burlesque history, and tell my own story.’

Save for the frequent hopping on and off planes, she seems to have found her particular form of domestic bliss in Chatsworth, a quiet suburb of Los Angeles, with her husband, four cats (Lily, Hermann, Aleister and Edgar) and two cars, a 1939 Chrysler, ‘the big gangster kind with the suicide doors’, and a 1965 Jaguar S type, ‘the pretty one with the grill’.

Their home also contains some of her memorabilia – one of Betty Grable’s corsets, letters from Gypsy Rose Lee, and a ‘memento that Sally Rand used to sell at her shows in 1938 – a handknit penis and ball cover. Pretty racy, huh?’

On meeting Von Teese in her red-velvet-lined dressing-room at London’s Café de Paris the afternoon before a show, her soft voice and doll-like form might at first lead one to assume that she would not say boo to a goose, but it is evident that this is not the case. She says of working with Vivienne Westwood, ‘We didn’t agree at first. I was really specific on how I wanted the dress to look so I had to be really firm.’

Von Teese sees herself as a ‘real no-nonsense business woman. I learnt a lot reading about Bettie Page and how she had no money in the end because she didn’t own any of her images.’ In her early twenties, when she was starting to make her name as a model on the fetish scene, she recalls, ‘I worked in a store selling cosmetics and danced in a strip club, as well as fetish modelling. I was doing all this at once so I never felt a slave to being a model. I would shoot what I wanted to shoot, and get paid what I wanted to get paid.’

She also set up a website of her pictures in 1992, ‘back when you could only have one picture on a page’. (Now the site has more than 15,000 images of her, which members can access, and merchandise for sale, including her used stockings.) Having worked her way up to headlining shows all over the US, her breakthrough came in 2002 when she made the cover of Playboy.

It even validated her in the eyes of her manicurist mother and machinist father who brought her up in Michigan and Orange County, California. ‘There were times my parents weren’t so sure about what I was doing, what this bondage modelling was all about. When I was on the cover of Playboy my father suddenly had much more respect for what I did.’

She may look like one of Hollywood’s most high-maintenance women, with her glossy red nails filed to points and their half-moons left unpainted, but she declares herself ‘a real do-it-yourselfer’ – her glossy blue-black hair is coloured from its natural blonde with Revlon 10-minute dye. ‘I always do my own make-up for my shows too. The one time I hired a stylist, they picked up a pair of my 1940s shoes and said, these would look really cute with jeans. I immediately said, you’re out of here.’


‘Burlesque and the Art of the Teese’ by Dita von Teese (HarperCollins) is available for £14.99 plus £1.25 p&p from Telegraph Books (0870-428 4112)

Dita von Teese, burlesque artist, retro pin-up and now the wife of Marilyn Manson, has risen from lingerie salesgirl to entertainer of choice at all the best parties. Between wedding and honeymoon, she found time to pose for a series of exclusive drawings by David Downton

Von Teese: "as soon as I was of legal age I wanted to take my clothes off and be photographed recreating old pin-ups"

Vivienne Westwood, who made the purple silk taffeta wedding gown for her December nuptials has described her as "mind-boggling, with the smallest waist, like a drawing from a fairytale, like Snow White"

Von Teese says of working with Vivienne Westwood: "We didn’t agree at first. I was really specific on how I wanted the dress to look so I had to be really firm"

Von Teese sees herself as a "real no-nonsense business woman. I learnt a lot reading about Bettie Page and how she had no money in the end because she didn’t own any of her images"

 

[Harumi]

When I was on the cover of Playboy my father suddenly had much more respect for what I did.

thank you great article!!
The drawings are sublime.

 

[LoveMyBoots]

Paris Fashion Week Parties Fall 2006
(style.com)

 

[Lily530]

fashion-victim...... those Wheels and Dollbaby photos are brand spankin' new!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU EVER SO!

 

[Lily530]

ok, she can stop pretending to be a ballerina now.
She's barely hanging on in those pointe shoes

Ummm...she IS trained in ballet.

 

[fashion_victim]

fashion-victim...... those Wheels and Dollbaby photos are brand spankin' new!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU EVER SO!

You're always very welcome, Lily!

Found these LQ scans (not HQs unfortunately) from Vegas Magazine Feb 2006



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[fashion_victim]

Oh, I found more



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[fashion_victim]

Dita Von Teese on Marc Jacobs
"I loved the shoes of course. Very high, very stylized, very me shoes."

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[pink_lipgloss]

Dita Von Teese performs her striptease on August 20, 2003 in New York City







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[pink_lipgloss]

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[pink_lipgloss]

Vegas magazine Feb 2006



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[pink_lipgloss]

Dita Von Teese/ After Party For Jade Jagger With Armandale Vodka



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