To her detractors, and they are legion as well, she is famous only for being famous. She feels much more vulnerable showing herself to one person.
Taking your clothes off in front of 30, people, too, feels different from disrobing in front of The smaller the audience, the more difficult it is. She isn't sure how to explain it. She takes in their energy. And they're looking into the window. This isolation might happen when she's doing a show for an audience that has never experienced burlesque before.
Or at a VIP event with a lot of celebrities in the room. Sofia Coppola had hired Von Teese to perform for her father's 70th birthday. Von Teese slithered out of her gown, climbed into a giant martini glass half-filled with water and splashed around.
It's also a bit about worrying whether her fame is merited. I'm gonna get up there and lip-synch and do my little dance, and I'm not her. But Von Teese can't remember a time she didn't feel comfortable in her own skin. She has stripped in front of her parents, for God's sake. She plans to strip in front of her grandmother. A girl once emailed Von Teese about wanting to do a burlesque show, but she was terrified and scared and worried about people judging her. I've never felt any of those things.
On the other hand, she is certainly not one of those people who are more comfortable out of clothes than in. Two bedrooms in her four-bedroom home function as closets. She owns pairs of shoes, a disproportionate number of them Christian Louboutin. She is known for doing her grocery shopping in nothing less than the perfect hair and the perfect red lips.
The perfection is deliberate. For instance, on a plane bound for New York not long ago, flight attendants and other people kept coming over to say hello. She does not consider herself an exhibitionist. Taking clothes off doesn't give her a sexual thrill. Photos of her on the red carpet rarely show her with a hemline above her knee.
The beauty who married the beast Manson. What, then, is Von Teese struggling to overcome? Many things, she supposes. Which made me want to create glamour and paint myself and do my makeup and hair well, and become something that I wasn't originally. He and I are birds of a feather in many ways. I have really fond memories of the first half of our seven-year relationship. But then the other half got pretty dark. And if I set my mind to it, I might be able to sing live.
Dita Von Teese is someone I always dreamed of being when I was little. I watched a lot of old movies with my mother. I looked at these s women in Technicolor with the red lips and the rosy cheeks and high heels and these incredible shapes. It was really mysterious and fabulous. I realised I could make that. I loved this artificial, contrived beauty. And I never felt very special or interesting. I got, like, a training bra. Working in that lingerie store, that led me to creating pinup photos, because I wanted to be photographed in my lingerie, and, of course, I still had that desire to dress myself and wear red lipstick and bring out these hallmarks of the s-, s-era style.
And so I kind of thought, Oh! The next thing I should do is create shows. My first burlesque shows were in strip clubs, because I was 20 years old, working with a fake ID. It was just an opportunity to wear my corsets and my lingerie, and I walked into an Orange County strip club in , and back then, it was all rock and roll and blondes and California girls, and there was nobody like me there.
I thought, This is great. I have no competition. She passed away recently, but she was one of the surviving stars of burlesque and she had this museum, Exotic World, the Burlesque Hall of Fame. So I called her, and she kind of coached me over the phone about what to do with these feather fans that I had just bought but had no idea what to do with. I only had photos.
So I kind of had to figure it out. I remember reading that Gypsy Rose Lee, her show was only seven minutes. So I kind of went by that seven-minute rule, until I started building bigger and bigger sets, having more elaborate costumes.
I started off with a handful of rhinestones, and then I was getting , rhinestones custom-cut from Swarovski, just to make these spectacles. Every penny I made, I would sink back into new shows, to make something bigger and bigger. The thing was, though, I just kind of went out there, and I was really myself.
When I was a guest at the Crazy Horse, they were super-strict about the steps and the lighting and the choreography. Everything is perfection. And it made me think, I should be more regimented like they are.
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