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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. "
Dita Von Teese
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" 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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" I don't feel I have an alter ego. "
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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'm more of an exaggerator than a liar. "
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" Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me. "
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" Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money. "
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" People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable. "
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" Corsetry is a body modification. "
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" I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes. "
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" Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin. "
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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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Myself
Hair
Red
" 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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Lunch
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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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Sketch
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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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Hair
Dressing
Makeup
" I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be. "
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Expect
Me
Idea
" 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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Face
You
Vulnerability
" I have a lot of Burberry items at home, including one dress that I loved so much that I had my living room painted to match because the color was so flattering. "
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Living
Home
Room
" I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice. "
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Adventure
Best
" 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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High
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" I really believe that beauty comes from health - sensible eating and exercise. "
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Beauty
Health
Exercise
" 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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Thought
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Internet
" 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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" My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created. "
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Women
Whose
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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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" 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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Clothes
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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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Someone
Past
" I was really, really shy when I was a little girl. "
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Really
Shy
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" Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying. "
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Receive
Says
Gift
" I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me. "
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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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History