At only 5’5 and 114 pounds, Dita Von Teese is rumored to have worn a very tight corset to bed every night. She is a famous burlesque artist, designer, model, and actress. As a young teenager, Von Teese was given her first bra by her mother made out of cotton. She was very displeased with the plain look of the bra hoping to receive a lacy, garment piece like from fashion magazines. Dita’s growing fascination for old 1940’s cinema and classic, iconic style developed at a very young age with the influence of her mother’s love in fashion and old Hollywood films. Von Teese studied ballerina which landed her talents in many burlesque shows and runways. Von Teese was inspired to create her own line of burlesque clothing, and studied costume designing in college.
For her bold looks, red lips, and creamy porcelain skin, this Armenian beauty does put on quite a show at all her burlesque dance shows. This elegant, classic beauty is famous for dancing in a martini glass routine. At the age of eighteen, she worked as a stripper to jump start her career into glamour modeling. She began working as a fetish model creating “pin-up” looks imitating Bettie Page looks in photo shoots. Von Teese is also well known for wearing corsets for many years. Therefore, wearing very tight corsets had reduced her waist line as small as 22 inches. So tiny! Von Teese has done various photo shoots for Playboy, Bizarre, and even graced the cover pages of a Japanese bondage fashion magazine.
As “the Queen of Burlesque,” Von Teese has been performing famous, elaborate shows incorporating her own creativity, costumes, design, and concept for all her stage performances. She had stated that all her burlesque shows “puts the tease back into striptease,” by creating the ideas of long, classic dance shows with different props and characters, inspired by her love for 1930’s and 1940’s films. Many of her dance routines include a carousal horse, claw foot bath tub, and a giant powder compact. These famous items are some of Von Tesse's favorite pieces to use for performance shows.
In Hollywood, Von Teese is known for being on the “best dressed” list. Having a love for high-end fashion, Von Teese can be seen wearing Christian Dior and Marc Jacobs. With many celebrities hiring their own personal stylists, Von Teese is against that idea. She actually is her own stylist picking out her own signature looks and does her own make up and hair.
Dita Von Teese was once married to rocker, Marilyn Manson. In 2006, Von Teese filed for divorce from the rocker and claims he had an affair with another woman. She is now happily dating French aristocrat, Count Louis Marie de Castelbajac.
She is not only breathtakingly gorgeous, beautiful, and exotic, but a true beauty in Hollywood. She reminds me of a modern day Marilyn Monroe. These elegant beauties have quite a lot in common from fashion attires, famous beauty marks, and sex appeal. Von Teese had been open about her plastic surgery on her breasts and an artificial beauty mark. Her never-ending love for fashion, beauty, and famous burlesque shows makes her a prominent key figure in the world of burlesque entertainment.