Gossip Queen: The art of being Dita Von Teese
BURLESQUE siren and lingerie queen Dita Von Teese has no plans to hang up her G-string any time soon, saying age has brought her experience and wisdom.
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BURLESQUE siren and lingerie queen Dita Von Teese has no plans to hang up her G-string any time soon.
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Von Teese, who is in Australia with her Art of the Teese tour, said age had brought experience and wisdom to her shows and businesses.
“When I was 22 I thought I was going to be finished when I was 30,” Von Teese, 45, said.
“I thought I was at the height of my excellence and the height of my beauty when I was 25, and that was really dumb because now when I look back at pictures or video of my show I realise I had so far to go and so much evolution and cultivation to do on things other than just my beauty and my body.”
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Von Teese’s brand includes a hugely successful lingerie line which she created with Melbourne businesswomen Helen Anderson and Lara Brockhurst.
Von Teese was at the Richmond headquarters of Dita Von Teese Lingerie, which is stocked in Bloomingdales, Nordstrom and Myer, last week working on her next range.
“When Helen and Laura approached me six years ago we instantly connected. I’d always wanted to do something with lingerie, my first job was in a lingerie store when I was 15,” she said.
“My pin-up career and my burlesque career all started with my fascination with lingerie and wanting to be photographed in it and seen in it.
“Lingerie can enhance your life in a way that is not like anything else. Even if no one sees it you still know it is there. It is a little bit like having a secret underneath your clothes and you can be whoever you want to be.”
The Dita Von Teese Lingerie range is heavily inspired by pieces from Von Teese’s own vintage lingerie archive.
“My whole mission has been to make wearable, functional and glamorous lingerie which is a nod to the past, but still has all of the technology of the present so that it fits well and you don’t have to choose between your sexy lingerie and your everyday lingerie,” she said.
“I have always loved vintage but I don’t want to make lingerie that is off-putting to people.
“I want it to still feel modern and relevant and definitely wearable.”
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