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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. "
Dita Von Teese
Kind
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Look
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Red
" I'm more of an exaggerator than a liar. "
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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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" 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
Things
" I was really, really shy when I was a little girl. "
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Little Girl
" 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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Perfume
Building
" I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different. "
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Like
Being Different
Internet
" 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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Same
Want
People
" I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while. "
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I Am
Project
" 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
" I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into. "
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Regret
Looks
Beauty
" I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise! "
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Classroom
Great
Me
" 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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Money
Father
People
" I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it? "
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Flaws
Women
See
" Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin. "
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Good
Look
Lips
" My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created. "
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Women
Whose
Images
" 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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Dinner
Day
Clothes
" 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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" 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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Lunch
Green
" 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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You
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" I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be. "
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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
" Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying. "
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Receive
Says
Gift
" I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams. "
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