56 Facts About Dita Von Teese

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Dita Von Teese is credited with re-popularizing burlesque performance, earning the moniker "Queen of Burlesque".

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Von Teese has been seen in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, RuPaul's Drag Race, The Masked Dancer, The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, among other television productions.

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Dita Von Teese is known for her short marriage to singer Marilyn Manson as well as performing in his music videos.

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Von Teese has released two books on burlesque history, fetishism and beauty.

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Dita Von Teese has recorded songs with French musician Sebastien Tellier.

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Dita Von Teese has toured the world with her burlesque shows in cities like London, Berlin, New York and Paris.

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Von Teese has been a special guest at the Parisian venue Crazy Horse several times.

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Dita Von Teese's 2016 show resulted in a DVD release.

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Dita Von Teese has created four perfumes under the brand Dita Von Teese Perfumes.

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Von Teese was born in West Branch, Michigan, the second of three daughters.

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Dita Von Teese is of English, Scottish, Armenian, and German heritage.

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Von Teese has stated that one of her grandmothers was half-Armenian and adopted into an Anglo-Saxon American family.

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Von Teese is known for her fascination with 1940s cinema and classic vintage style.

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Dita Von Teese's mother was a fan of old, Golden Age-era Hollywood films, and from her, Von Teese developed a fascination with the actresses of that day, especially Betty Grable.

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Dita Von Teese was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age, and danced solo at age 13 for a local ballet company.

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When Von Teese was a teenager, her mother took her to buy her first bra, made from plain white cotton, and gave her a plastic egg containing a pair of wrinkly, flesh-colored pantyhose.

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Von Teese says she was disappointed, as she had been hoping to receive beautiful lacy garments and stockings, of the type she had glimpsed in her father's Playboy magazines.

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Dita Von Teese worked in a lingerie store as a salesgirl when she was 15, eventually as a buyer.

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Von Teese has been fond of wearing elaborate lingerie such as corsets and basques with fully fashioned stockings ever since.

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In college, Von Teese studied historic costuming and aspired to work as a stylist for films.

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Dita Von Teese is a trained costume designer, often designing her photo shoots herself.

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At 18, Von Teese had her famous beauty mark tattooed on her left cheek.

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Dita Von Teese was stunned by the other strippers' lack of originality and wanted to incorporate vintage and fetish style to her performance.

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Von Teese is known for her signature painted eyes, heavily penciled brows, swipe of crimson lipstick, and blue-black locks.

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Von Teese achieved some level of recognition in the fetish world as a tightlacer.

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Von Teese appeared on numerous fetish magazine covers, including Bizarre and Marquis.

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Von Teese was featured in Playboy in 1999,2001, and 2002, with a cover-featured pictorial in 2002.

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Von Teese is best known for her burlesque routines and is frequently dubbed the "Queen of Burlesque" in the press.

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Von Teese began performing burlesque in 1992, and, as a proponent of Neo-Burlesque, has helped to popularize its revival.

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Additionally, Von Teese became the first guest star at the Crazy Horse cabaret club in Paris with her appearance in October 2006.

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In 2006, Von Teese appeared on an episode of America's Next Top Model doing a workshop to teach the contestants about sensuality by means of burlesque dancing and posing.

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In 2007, Von Teese performed at the adult entertainment event Erotica 07 in London alongside Italian rock band Belladonna.

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Von Teese participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia, as part of the stage performance for the German entry "Miss Kiss Kiss Bang".

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Dita Von Teese has appeared in more mainstream features such as the 2005 short film, The Death of Salvador Dali, written by Delaney Bishop, which won best screenplay and best cinematography at SXSW, Raindance Film Festival, and Mill Valley Film Festival, and won Best Actress at Beverly Hills Film Festival.

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Dita Von Teese starred in the feature film Saint Francis in 2007.

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Dita Von Teese appeared in the music video "Up in the Air" by Thirty Seconds to Mars in 2013.

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Dita Von Teese played Rita von Squeeze, a femme fatale version of herself, who seduces Szmanda's character, Greg Sanders, in a plot inspired by film noir.

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In 2021, Von Teese appeared on the British version of the Fox TV series The Masked Dancer, masked as Beetroot.

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In 2022, Von Teese appeared in the music video for Taylor Swift's "Bejeweled" from her tenth studio album Midnights.

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Von Teese has appeared on a number of best-dressed lists and frequents the front row of fashion shows, particularly Christian Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Marc Jacobs, labels she is often seen wearing.

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Von Teese has appeared in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Elle, and international issues of nearly every fashion magazine.

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Dita Von Teese has designed a new lingerie range with Wonderbra.

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In May 2012, Von Teese launched her makeup collection "Classics" in partnership with the German cosmetic brand Art Deco.

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In 2012, Von Teese launched her own clothing line and underwear line called Von Follies.

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In 2013, she was both model and muse for the 'Dita Von Teese' 3D printed gown designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitonti and 3D printed by Shapeways exactly to fit her body.

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Dita Von Teese's first was named Dita Von Teese and is described by her as 'mood setting for glamour'.

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Dita Von Teese's second was named Rouge and is described as 'mood setting for seduction'.

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The third FleurDita Von Teese is for romance and Erotique is mood setting to be erotic.

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In 2014, Von Teese began working with Myer, an Australian department store, on a lingerie line fronted by Australian model Stefania Ferrario.

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On January 22,2020, Von Teese walked in Jean Paul Gaultier's final couture fashion show in Paris.

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Dita Von Teese's home is a Tudor revival residence in the Hollywood Hills, dedicated to early 20th-century decor, including antique taxidermy, a pub house and a glass box with Bettie Page's vintage fetish shoes.

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Dita Von Teese is a collector of vintage china, particularly egg cups and tea sets, and drives vintage cars.

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Von Teese has been in a relationship with graphic designer Adam Rajcevich since 2014.

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Dita Von Teese wore a royal purple silk taffeta gown, made by Vivienne Westwood and a tri-cornered hat designed by Stephen Jones and matching Mr Pearl corset.

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On December 29,2006, Von Teese filed for divorce from Manson citing "irreconcilable differences".

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Von Teese left their house empty-handed on Christmas Eve, and was not able to get in touch with Manson to inform him of her intention to divorce him.