Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is! – Dita Von Teese
I’d say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire. – Dita Von Teese
I don’t work with a stylist, I don’t work with a glam squad to get me together for the red carpet, I really enjoy the time it takes to do it myself, to choose my clothes and do my own makeup and my own hair. – Dita Von Teese
Yes, but more than being a designer, I’m more of a stylist, because I don’t sew and I don’t sketch, but I’m good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things. – Dita Von Teese
I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn’t have money for designer clothes. – Dita Von Teese
But I’m not the girl who changes into flats because my feet are tired at the end of the night. I go the distance. I go all the way. – Dita Von Teese
I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it’s fun to have an adventure. It’s like eating junk food… it’s fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice. – Dita Von Teese
I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos – I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it’s important message to other women that they can do it, too. – Dita Von Teese
I like styling girls that don’t normally dress in vintage clothes and don’t normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kind of girls restyled in a retro way. – Dita Von Teese
People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten – they look great, but they’re not as memorable. – Dita Von Teese
Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn’t usually some big political message behind what they were doing. – Dita Von Teese
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth. – Dita Von Teese
Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that’s how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it. – Dita Von Teese
I can’t stand wearing the same clothes all day. It makes me insane. I like to dress for the afternoon and for dinner. – Dita Von Teese
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair. – Dita Von Teese
I think as someone who collects beautiful things from the past, the thing that I miss the most about modernism and the things I lament about the past are everyday things that you would use were made more beautifully. – Dita Von Teese
I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they’re not just looking for the latest, most normal thing. – Dita Von Teese
When people say I look intimidating, it’s hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don’t know why. – Dita Von Teese
Every one of my products – my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows – is just me. – Dita Von Teese
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn’t really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever. – Dita Von Teese
Don’t underestimate the cosmetic power of sunglasses. It’s worth spending a bit of money on a quality pair. I usually go for Dior or Louis Vuitton. – Dita Von Teese
