Women We Love: Dita Von Teese

March 31, 2009

Women We Love: Dita Von Teese

The “Queen of Burlesque”, sexiness, elegance, and fetish, Miss Dita Von Teese is a fair skinned beauty that we all can’t help but love. Armed with a vintage style and enough sexual confidence for all of female-kind. Dita is one of the first names that comes to mind where modern dance is involved. As an accomplished ballerina, model, and burlesque dancer Von Teese, born Heather Sweet, is in a sex class of her own.

A fan of the 1930’s, ‘40’s, and ‘50’s burlesque shows Dita embarked on her career at the age of 18, as a stripper in California. However, the creative and innovative Von Teese was bored with the “average” costume and routine and put her costume design skills to work as she re-invented her own look.

Before becoming a burlesque dancer in 1993, she gained fame in the fetish world as a tight lacer. She was even featured on the cover of a Japanese bonding magazine. Dita’s careers lead her to become the first guest star at the Parisian Crazy Hoarse Cabaret Club (October 2006). Her 1920’s inspired shows have featured a full shower, powder compact, and her signature martini glass routine, which can be seen in Ex-husband, Marilyn Manson’s music video for “Mobscene”.

Her vintage look and sex appeal has ignited the attention of the fashion world, as Dita, a fan of Dior. Marc Jacobs, and Versace, is a familiar face at all the shows. Her unique look, slim physique, and elegant tastes make designers gravitate towards her, walking the catwalk for designers Heatherette, Giambattista Valli, and Moschino.

Dita’s resume continues to blossom as she has over three Playboy features, book and album covers, and is an author: Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese, in which she gives her opinion on the art of burlesque dance. She has also appeared in soft-core porn films, season 7 of America’s Top Model, and a host of other films. Dita Von Teese is a woman we love because she is comfortable in her skin, confident, graceful, and stylish. She does what many women and men secretly fantasize and has made history while doing so.

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22 Comments »

While Ms. Teese has certainly made a name for herself; do we really aspire to fame created by the exploitation of oneself? Isn’t it enough that women are exploited daily just trying to survive in this sexist arena without the likes of Ms. Teese. Yes a healthy dose of sexuality and confidence doesn’t hurt anyone but I dare anyone to say to they would be comfortable with their 8 year old female aspiring to be another Ms. Teese. I could hear the conversations already, that is really nice and it is great that she is confident and has made a living for herself but isn’t there anything else you want to explore. What about …..

Comment by D. Milligan — March 31, 2009 @ 10:26 am

Fukin wahhh.. do you go around looking for posts to say “girls can’t live up to that”

And for exploiting herself.. really.. its just another career

Comment by Maudite — May 7, 2009 @ 4:20 pm

Tres Belle

Comment by Marquis De Smack — July 16, 2009 @ 1:14 pm

wow. so are you one of those people who hate everyone more successful than you? why dont you post about people you like, instead of about people you wish you could be. sorry that youre ugly and miserable with your life, but that sounds a lot like a sob story i dont wanna hear. i think dita is wonderful.

Comment by SwaY — July 22, 2009 @ 7:24 am

Well, I have nothing to say on a moral stance other than: she photographs beautifully, has a lovely sense of style and does what makes her happy. Kudos to her. Particularly for teaching some much needed lessons in glamour in todays fashion world. Reading her book certainly opened my eyes to many aspects of the world that I’d not considered before.

It truly is a shame that media and societies’ perceptions of perfection and the related loss of identity many people seem to express interferes with the sheer fun of people like her.

Comment by Josie — July 29, 2009 @ 6:25 am

Calm down and get real . The post was just some info for you to digest. A little something to make you think… (out of the question for some) Perhaps I will read the book mentioned in the prior post. As for society and media’s perception, I totally agree.

Comment by D. Milligan — July 30, 2009 @ 9:11 am

I think D.Milligan is right. and puls i think D.Z. Scott is just say that any wonman on earth don’t have be looking so sexy just so some guy to like them or to attention. And no it dont matter who’s better or not and who makes more money then the other person. I dont know why people always say that for. i think people that say that feel bad for them slef!

Comment by Leslie Rivera — July 30, 2009 @ 9:30 am

but aslo i think D.Z.Scott IS THE BEST SO STOP HATIN AND KEEP IT GOING

Comment by Leslie Rivera — July 30, 2009 @ 9:31 am

Tesse is absolutely phenomenal. I look up to her sense of fashion. I want to be able to coordinate my sexual outfits as she does. Women should embrace their inner dominance, inner id. I’m part of the fetish scene, and with her as an icon to the scene makes me even more proud to say that I am not so different than her. I would love to be a model, but I’m satisfied just fulfilling my desires and looking like her doing that.

Comment by ClassyDomme — September 10, 2009 @ 9:58 pm

Dita Von Teese can do whatever she wants and so can any female. What sexist arena? Everyday I feel just as equal as anyone else. What do you want? For women to take all jobs from the men, and put them in the kitchen? Well that’s not equal at all. The point is I can see why Ms. Teese gets the feministic backlash. She’s gorgeous, has a perfect body that’s very unlike the skinny shapeless supermodels and actresses we see today. Women must be jealous. I know I am, her body is killer and it would be amazing to have it. Go Dita!

Comment by Morgan — September 11, 2009 @ 12:52 am

Women AND men exploit themselves in any career they choose, how many people die of stress related heart attacks? how many people work 60+hrs a week and live under the poverty line? I think Dita has great style and there is nothing wrong with her line of work… if anything she is an example of confidence.

Comment by anonymous — September 11, 2009 @ 2:30 am

ESSA DITA VON TEESE

Comment by Rafael — October 25, 2009 @ 5:23 pm

wonderfullllllllll!!!!!

Comment by otavio fam — October 29, 2009 @ 12:28 pm

Its another career, and at least shes good at it; at least shes not like every other glamour model - orange, blonde and fakeee.
Dita is gorgeous and i salute her <3

Comment by Sash — November 24, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

Dita von Teese, woah.
This women is really sexy… Perfect body.
If you ask me, she’s the sexiest girl I’ve ever seen.

Comment by TheOther — December 1, 2009 @ 8:49 am

I think she is beautiful, she’s not exploting herself if she is willing do to it, people have differnt taste and choose how they want to be, and this is what makes her comfortable and happy, who gives a damn, I think shes gorgeous, and very classy the way she does it. <3

Comment by CarixxaBunny — December 25, 2009 @ 2:52 pm

Oh man Marilyn Manson gots taste. she’s absolutely perfect.

Comment by Katmaï x86_64` — February 1, 2010 @ 2:09 pm

She looks so sweet and innocent. She reminds me of snow white.

I don’t believe that she in any way is exploiting herself.

Definition of exploiting:
“The act of using something in an unjust or cruel manner.”

I believe she has the freedom to choose her career. I would believe that she is expressing herself, not being forced to do something she doesn’t want to do.

Please know what you’re saying before you speak.

Comment by Jenna — February 11, 2010 @ 11:03 pm

I don’t have any kids of my own, but I don’t think a lot of kids watch porn because you have to be 18.

And when I was a kid me and my friend saw like naughty pictures of girls that her dad posted in his garage. It didn’t hurt us, now my friend is a famous ballerina and she’s dancing in the opening ceremony at the 2010 olympics.

We are born from a woman. Seeing beautiful women is not going to hurt a child.

Whatever, I like arguing with people.

Comment by Jenna — February 11, 2010 @ 11:16 pm

Totally agree with you D. Milligan…yes pretty etc. ok, whatever there are million of women that can turn my head wherever I go without the need to put up such a fuss and choose such a name.
I am a guy by the way.
I agree that while we can be doing much worse things that trying to make money out of our beauty (really, is there such a thing? or is just a reflection of what we see published everywhere that tells us what’s beautiful and what’s not?), still it is a pretty ethereal useless thing, light, meaningless (good for touching yourself maybe) and no, I hope women will stop one day competing for their beauty brags and just live their life without the parameter of how you stack beauty-sexy-hot wise (look at those posts putting up her “gorgeous” body (why?) and insulting all the others because they must be ugly if they don’t like her or skinny bitches..oh sure couse they all chose their own body so they deserve the insults from the aesthetic fascists).
In the end she’s not more attractive to me than my very real “Jeanny Ross” neighbor girl in her slippers and with her cellulite, and without a stuffed bra like Dita, not at all, to me at least. And she does a job with her brain, unlike Dita again.

Comment by Meow — March 3, 2010 @ 6:37 pm

agreed with Milligan and Meow.

the rest of you need to set better expectations of yourselves and of others (if you think about it, you really aren’t praising dita through your statements of how beautiful she is but actually insulting her by failing to acknowledge that she could, perhaps, maybe, (actually?), be an intellectual being with a BRAIN. you’re doing it by judging something that she just so happened to have by chance/luck - her looks, -and neglecting/overlooking her accomplishments - by that i mean anything she may have achieved with her brain).

the book that she wrote on the other hand, that may be something to awe over.

so, for all of you who brainlessly commented on what an achievement she’s made just being beautiful, i am taking the liberty to be insulted on Ms. Dita’s behalf.

Comment by --- — March 9, 2010 @ 3:05 pm

Also, Morgan, just as it isn’t right that women should expect men to give up all the jobs and stay in the kitchen in the name of equality, it is also INCREDIBLY wrong that women should have such a market to SELL their bodies over men. how come men don’t have so many opportunities/expectations placed on them in the same market? food for thought.

Comment by --- — March 9, 2010 @ 3:12 pm

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