Dita Von Teese (born Heather Renée Sweet) is a popular American burlesque artist, model and actress.She is one of the instigators of the burlesque revival and has been a considerable factor in bringing burlesque to mainstream attention. Her fame increased during her relationship with Marilyn Manson, to whom she was married from 2005 to 2007.
Is a popular dancer and pin-up model.
At her wedding with Marilyn Manson , she wore a royal purple silk taffeta Vivienne Westwood gown complete with train and petticoats worn over a Mr. Pearl couture corset. Her outfit was accessorized with a tri-corn hat by Stephen Jones and shoes by Christian Louboutin.
Her engagement ring from Marilyn Manson was a 7-carat, antique, European round-cut diamond.
Named herself Dita after Dita Parlo.
Often compared to Burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee , not only for their work in burlesque, but also for their shared love of haute couture fashions.
Thanked at the end of Charlies Angels: Full Throttle because she helped train them for their dance routine.
Posed nude for the December 2002 issue of Playboy magazine. She was photographed by her then-future husband, Marilyn Manson.
Born at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Michigan.
Filed for divorce from Marilyn Manson , citing irreconcilable differences.
Ranked #82 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
Ranked #87 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
The family relocated from Michigan to Orange County, California when her fathers job moved. She attended University High School in Irvine. In college, she studied historic costuming and aspired to work as a stylist for period films. She is a trained costume designer, often designing (and copyrighting) the photoshoots herself.
Was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age and danced solo at age thirteen for a local ballet company.
Middle of three daughters. Her mother was a manicurist and her father was a machinist at a company that made graphite.
Is of Armenian heritage through her grandmother.
Sherilyn Fenn s December 1990 Playboy pictorial was the original inspiration for dying her hair from blonde to black.
She collects classic cars and and drives a BMW Z4 and a 1965 Jaguar S-type. And she sold her 1939 Chrysler New Yorker with an autographed photo of herself for $23,403 on eBay in 2010.
In an episode of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" , she played a woman who performed as a burlesque dancer with the stage name of "Rita von Squeeze".
(February 2006) Releasing her book "Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese" on Valentines Day.
I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.
When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created. .
