Dita Von Teese Interview: Fashionista Chats With The Burlesque Queen About All Things Lingerie
Dita Von Teese is a woman of many talents. She’s a wonder woman at burlesque, a fashion icon, and a great businesswoman. Plus, she’s gorgeous, inside and out.
For the last year or so, Von Teese has had a great deal of success with her line of vintage-inspired lingerie (that she designed), but it hasn’t really been available in the U.S., until now.
Come April 23, HSN will be selling Von Teese’s Von Follies line, along with two of her fragrances. I have both of her perfumes and can’t wait to own some of her Von Follies line.
Fashionista had the chance to sit down with the beauty and chat with her about the line, among other fun things.
Check out some highlights below. To see the full interview, visit Fashionista.
Fashionista: So this is the biggest launch you’ve done right?
Dita Von Teese: Yeah, the biggest American collaboration for sure. I have my own lingerie brand called Von Follies, and so basically HSN has chosen what they think [will work best] and they have definitely gone towards the ones that they will be able to make in full figure sizes. I think they are selling up to an E-cup.
F: Where did your love of lingerie come from?
DVT: I’ve always had a love of lingerie–since I was a little girl. I was obsessed with it as a rite of passage as a woman. I couldn’t wait till I was old enough to wear lingerie. And then my first job was working in a lingerie store. So I have quite a good knowledge of lingerie from then. I really built my whole career on my love of lingerie when I think about it–my desire to show it off, like onstage and in pin-up photos. I think what I love about it is that it can be this thing of great beauty and womanly elegance that you have in your everyday life. So I really wanted to bring beauty and glamour and fit and function all in one package in an accessible way.
F: You said you’ve been obsessed with lingerie since you were a little girl. What was your very first memory of lingerie?
DVT: I watched a lot of old movies with my mother that really just set the tone for everything. I remember being really obsessed with garter belts and stockings. I used to steal things out of my mom’s lingerie drawer and try them on secretly. I actually still have a bra that I stole from my mom when I was little. I don’t know how I managed to still keep it but I did…it’s black lace.
F: And what about your fragrances (she’s selling two: “Dita Von Teese” and “Rouge”)?
DVT: Dita Von Teese, the one in the black bottle, is my first. I was dating a Frenchman a few years ago [Count Louis Marie de Castelbajac] when I first made the perfume and he confessed to me that I wore the same perfume as his mother. And that was around the same time I approached to make my own, so I got really into the process. I wanted to make something really womanly and sophisticated and there is no element of fruit or citrus or anything sweet. I wanted to do something really grown up, the kind of perfume Marlene Dietrich would wear–but not something your grandmother would wear either.
F: Did you have a hand in designing the bottles too?
DVT: The [bottle design] is based on a lot of vintage perfume bottles that I have in my collection and books. I have a big library full of vintage references of makeup, perfume, lingerie, everything. So I got a lot of ideas from old perfume bottles that I’d seen.
F: This is a bit unrelated but when I told my office I was coming here to talk to you everyone said ‘Please tell me how she keeps her skin looking like that!’ So, how do you do it?
DVT: No smoking, sunscreen, keep moisturized. I use a little bit of retinol at night sometimes.
F: Any other little makeup or styling tricks that someone could do at home?
DVT: I always say that practice makes perfect. You can learn to do anything. I don’t have a glam squad, I don’t have a stylist. When I’m on the red carpet it is all my doing. I just feel like, people need to feel more empowered. You can learn how to do anything, if you just zero in on that one thing you want to be great at–whether you want to have a great cat eye or want to be able to do a certain hairstyle you admire, you just got to practice it and you can be as good at it as anybody else.
F: How long does it take you to get ready?
DVT: Like an hour [for an event]. I don’t spend an hour everyday, I usually spend like 15 minutes. I don’t spend much time on beauty, usually its just mascara, a little powder, red lipstick, hair in a chignon, done. I like to do it fast.
Wow, practice does make perfect. 15 minutes with makeup for me doesn’t end up with me looking like a flawless porcelain doll. So I guess I need to perfect that art!
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