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I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.
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I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.
Written by Dita Von Teese
Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.
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But I'm not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way.
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I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully.
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I don't feel I have an alter ego.
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When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don't know why.
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I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
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Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.
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I can't stand wearing the same clothes all day. It makes me insane. I like to dress for the afternoon and for dinner.
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I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they're not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
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Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.
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Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.
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I like styling girls that don't normally dress in vintage clothes and don't normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kind of girls restyled in a retro way.
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I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
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So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.
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Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they were doing.
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When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.
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I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red carpet, I really enjoy the time it takes to do it myself, to choose my clothes and do my own makeup and my own hair.
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I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.
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I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise.
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My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
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I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.
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I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.
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I feel better about myself when I look my best. I always find the time to put on my powder and do my chignon.
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I was always intrigued by the idea of bringing things together that are considered taboo or risque and bringing them together with something of high elegance and sophistication.
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I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.
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Corsetry is a body modification.
Written by Dita Von Teese

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