![]() A lot of people ask me about confidence, and I tell them. I felt like I could capture the spirit of that. My idols are women from the past, like Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, and Rita Hayworth. The reason I started doing all of this, dressing myself in retro-style glamour, was because I felt like finally I had something in common with a sex symbol. You know, I’m a blonde girl from a farming town in Michigan. ![]() ![]() The combination of all these things is what makes it magical.ĭo a lot of people come to you for advice on how to feel sexier? They do, and I really just explain where I’m coming from. There’s never anything that is too overtly sexual onstage, but it’s still erotic. It’s these symbols of transformation that we can all relate to, and we can all create if we want to. I can’t relate to that beauty.īurlesque is the idea of creation: the red lipstick, the red nails, the high heels, black stockings, and garter belts, which accentuate and hide things maybe we don’t like about ourselves. For me, one of the reasons I started making burlesque shows and posing for pinups was because I felt like I didn’t have many modern models of sensuality that I could relate to, because I don’t look like a Victoria’s Secret model covered in sand running down the beach. There’s a lot of fantasy and spectacle and glamour. Why do women watch burlesque? There’s a lot of humor involved. Don’t follow Kim Kardashian if you don’t want to look at her nude selfies! And don’t come to a burlesque show if you don’t want to see girls stripteasing. And if you don’t like it, Don’t look at it. ![]() Just like someone could look at those photos and say, “I’m going to do that, too, and I’m not going to be ashamed of my body.” Or someone can watch a burlesque show and say, “I felt uncomfortable” or “I didn’t understand it.” It’s not for anyone to decide except for the person who’s doing it. One person can go see a burlesque show and feel inspired and empowered and that they want to do the same. It’s not about what that person is doing it’s about how people translate it. The thing that I always say about what I do for a living, which could be perceived as empowering or degrading, is that everyone’s got a right to their opinion. They’re doing what I was doing in the early ’90s, and I’m kind of doing what I love, which is burlesque shows and designing lingerie and writing my beauty book.ĭid you see the recent Instagram post by Emily Ratajkowski and Kim Kardashian West in which they said they would not be ashamed of their naked bodies? Do you think posting nude selfies is feminist? I feel two ways about it. I moved on, and now there are so many girls who are fetish pinup models. I was on the cover of all the fetish magazines and I was the only one doing retro-style pinups. I was the poster girl, the modern answer to Bettie Page. ![]() Where have all the fetishists gone? I think the fetishists are still there. They’re mind-boggling in terms of showgirl costumes, so I’m wearing a lot of those things because they’re showstoppers. I have these spectacles of Swarovski that have hundreds of thousands of rhinestones on them. Will they be designing some of the costumes that you’ll be wearing onstage for Strip Strip Hooray!? Well, Catherine D’Lish has been making a lot of the rhinestone-heavy costumes of the show. You have been a muse to several major fashion designers, including Jean Paul Gaultier and Zac Posen. But after performing a sold-out, two-week run at Paris’s famed Crazy Horse theater, Von Teese is returning to her roots with a world-touring new burlesque show, Strip Strip Hooray! Before a series of West Coast shows began this week, we caught up with the star by phone to talk costume mishaps, nude selfies, and burlesque feminism. Last year she released a beauty book, Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour, and also found time to design a lingerie collection. Close readers of know that Dita Von Teese, the Queen of Burlesque, has recently been diversifying her talents. ![]()
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