Dita Von Teese at Voom Portraits: Robert Wilson at Ace gallery (02/23/07)

[aabbcc]

She's gorgeous.

[sweetrebel]

Originally Posted by MaryJane

How boring to have only black eyeliner and red lipstick in your beauty case

but how nice to only need black eyeliner and red lipstick

[Kathie_Moffett]

Originally Posted by lisalucy69

The image i get from her is that she's trying to be someone she's not. I don't buy the high-class thing about her. A stripper is a stripper is a stripper, no matter how high class you pretend to be.

Nothing wrong with being a stripper. Some of the coolest women I know are in burlesque. But nowadays, burlesque IS a far cry from a tweaker chick pole dancing at a truck stop tittie bar.

The "look" with which Dita happens to be obsessed is basically an upper-class glam look from the 40's-50's, but then she puts it in the stripper context which makes me chuckle. I've always thought she's kinda doing Joan Bennett or Gene Tierney...as a burlesque dancer. It's an odd synthesis but it works for her IMO. She does owe a LOT to Bettie Page, too.

I don't know that she's really all that stuck up. Sometimes she just seems awkward, in interviews for instance. Not a very open, comfortable person. But I do like this quote from her: "I'm really just a freckled blonde from Michigan." Which is true.

[A*O]

As a stripper/burlesque dancer, whatever, she's also worked out that a lot of men find that ultra glamorous 40s and 50s style extremely attractive and seductive. They actually want a bit of aloofness instead of a trashy ho sticking her hoohah in their face for $5 a pop.

[Raspberry gashes]

If she's a freckled blonde, wheres the freckles? Maybe thats why she wears so much makeup.