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Dita Von Teese

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first: 2019-07-29
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“Yeah, while I have my lingerie line, which is at like Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom and a lot of online retailers, I'm working on another book called Fashioning the Faum Total, which will come out. It's a follow-up to my beauty book that I wrote. And that one will come out, I think, in September 2020. And this year, I'm touring with a new show, kicking off in Australia in November, and then doing like eight weeks in Europe, March 2020 through April. And then I think I'll do the US sometime in 2020 as well.”
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“I'm mostly active on Instagram, I have to say, but I definitely use Facebook and a little bit of Twitter. I can't help it. It was the first one. Still good.”
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“Stop doing strip teas. What if I don't look as good as I used to? And then I thought, like, wait, you have to, I have female followers and I have to stand for something. And I think it's important to have examples of eroticism and sensuality in all different phases of life and to set examples for that. Because I look to people that are older than me, like Jennifer Lopez and, you know, Gwen Stefani and all these people that I'm like, oh, she's sexy. You know, like I can be like that too. So I think it's important as much as it's not always easy and you open yourself up to criticism, it's important to some people to see examples of this.”
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“It's a real interesting conversation, though, about ageism and how we treat women of a certain age. And it's one of those things that I feel like it's important to stand up for. I almost retired a few years ago thinking like, oh, I'm 40.”
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“But once you are beyond childbearing years, you shouldn't dress like that. And I just found it amazing that she used to be the editor at British Vogue.”
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“Yeah, you're trying. What is that? But I was like, what are you talking about? And she said that it's okay for men because they can procreate at any age, essentially”
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“But I did find it disturbing because they were basically saying she was saying that once your past childbearing age, you shouldn't be wearing clothes like that or you should open let the other, the young people have their chance. And I mean, if you can see this picture of Helena Christensen, you'd be like, she looks so hot and she's perfect. And she says things in this article like, no matter how invisible your bingo wings are,”
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“For her to be flaunting that much skin at her age. And mind you, she looks fantastic. When I'm hearing about this article, I Googled it, you know, and I read it. It's a daily mail article, which is obviously clickbait, so I chose not to share it because I was like, oh yes, I'm offended and outraged, but that's exactly what they want from us. They want me to have everyone read it and be outraged.”
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“But she's an amazing, but his book in general is amazing because it spotlights all these elderly people and there's a lot of talk about you shouldn't wear that because you're of a certain age. And these are ladies that are colorful and amazing and fashion icons and living their lives. And I think it's important to like, you know, have people like this spotlighted. You know, I was just actually reading this horrific article yesterday that my friend Liz Goldwyn pointed out to me. This writer, she was actually an editor of Vogue. And so I was shocked that she wrote something like this. She was. Saying that Helena Christensen, who's 50, went to a party and she was wearing jeans and a strapless bustier. And she said it was completely inappropriate.”
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“She's 100. Yeah, she does. And she's an amazing lady. I learned about her from a book called Advanced Style by my friend Ari Seth Cohen. I don't know if you've ever heard about this book, but it's about, he was obsessed with finding older ladies that dress in eccentric ways and wear eccentric makeup and that are, you know, fashion icons in their own right eccentric people. And I learned about her because she's like four feet tall. She has this flaming orange hair and she makes her own eyelashes, like long red eyelashes, blue eyeshadow. And she's an artist. And she's, you know, she has a show, I think, too. Like she's a singer like in Provincetown. Anyway, she's like, she's her name again. Her name's Elona Royce Smithskin.”
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“From her She just has little pearls of wisdom. She has an Instagram that I love to follow, and she just puts it out there all the time about mostly. She's a hundred.”
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“I'm looking at the world today as compared to how it was in the 50s and 60s and 70s. She's like, I wouldn't do it now. So I thought that was interesting. I like talking to people. I have another friend named Alona Royce Smithskin, who's 100 years old. And I love getting on the phone with her and hearing, she still has amazing advice. Any advice?”
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“Still TBD. One thing I love in life is knowing women much older than me and asking for their advice. Like the thing that you asked me about earlier about watching my finances, that advice came from 1950s movie star and pinup model who's still around now, Mamie Van Doren. She's like a blonde bombshell. She was kind of like a Marilyn Monroe. Anyway, she was a big star back then. But anyway, I know her and I love to sit down with her and have her give me advice. And that was one of her things is like, watch your money. I know it's not fun. And it's not fun to look at numbers and challenge people, but watch it all. And she also had said to me, she has one son. And she was like, I love my son, but it wasn't the most important thing I did in life. It wasn't, it's not something you have to do if you don't feel inclined. And she said, and if I'm looking at the world today, the way...”
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“I just think I have been asked about it my whole adult life and I think wow what a you know in interviews and I just always thought like what if you were asking someone that could not have children you know and why do we have to put so much emphasis on if you don't have children you're not your life isn't full and you haven't done the most important job there is in the world because there are lots of people that can't have children for different reasons does that make them less of a person so that's one of the problems I have with people always putting so much emphasis on the importance of being a mother it's like it's kind of when you think about it you know it's kind of not very cool to ask people about that or to make that statement that that it's that it's the most important job in the world”
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“Is it because you're newly in love, though? Because that's the thing you got to get past that new love thing. Yeah, because it's like a science of like, I should have a baby. Yeah, you get.”
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“What can you do? I feel like I chose my path. I don't necessarily feel like it's the right time for everyone to bring children to the world in any way.”
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“And then I think, well, there's always remedies for that too, though. You can adopt anytime. Because it's really one of those things where I never, sometimes I wish. When it comes to children and people that have children, I don't really envy any of my friends with children except for adult children. I'm like, oh, that's so cool. You have this great adult child that's doing amazing things that is probably fun to hang out with. But it doesn't always work out like that, you know? It doesn't always work out like that. Know, I just it's hard when you're in the line of work that I'm in. I can't think of a time where I ever could have stopped and said, Oh, I think I'll just have a baby. So, you know, it's a real.”
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“Oh god, I'm worried that my older self might say that I should have had a child. I'm concerned about that, you know. I'm not concerned about right now”
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“You know, like suddenly I was in ad campaigns without a watch Photoshopped on my hand because someone took a portrait of me when I was like 25 and then they used it 10 years later. So there were things like that, which, you know, I just, I didn't really, you know, I didn't have any anticipation that that kind of thing would happen to me. I was just like, oh yeah, that's fine. sign whatever was in front of me but you know I guess people could have taken advantage of me no matter what”
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“I think in my mid twenties I would have told myself to try to maybe buy a house like even if it was something small I would have done that And I would have also worn myself about signing model releases because although there are lots of people that really like our kind and like, you know, I didn't know I was going to be famous, but there were some people that took advantage of that.”
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“I also love taking a time out during the day, actually by myself and sipping a little magic mushroom tea and going, oh. Okay, this is what kind of gets to the essence of things like a simplistic.”
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“and do it and the first like for me the first five minutes is brutal and then suddenly i go into like the zone i'm like oh yeah this is what i came here for”
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“Yeah, I kind of don't mind really going to the dentist, and it kind of makes me close my eyes and like think about things. Yeah, so it's more like taking time out because I have always these to-do lists and I realize I'm trying to chip away at it and doing too many things and I think I just need to, it makes my life better when I stop and I focus, you know, clear my mind, close my eyes, meditate.”
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“Well, I think it's mostly like regaining focus. and having, I also, besides like transcendental meditation clearing my mind, I also love to schedule a massage or something that puts me in a relaxed state, but still a thinking state. Because I don't like it, it's not like I'm trying to just tune out, then I start actually thinking about what I'm going to do. That's where I come up with my good ideas where I'm like, what's my new tour going to be called? And I love to set aside that time of not doing and racing around and not, you know, trying to accomplish things and just like, I'm going to lay here for an hour and think about this thing that I need to figure out. I can do that at the dentist too sometimes, actually.”
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“So, having that pressure off and even now just realizing five minutes is good. That seemed to help a lot. And I'm trying to be better at it. And it's something that gives me a goal to.”
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“Transcendental meditation You know, I feel like when I was always intimidating to me, I think I dropped into a Buddhist meditation center once and I was like, oh my God, sitting here for an hours and it scared me away. And then someone introduced me to... Transcendental meditation I learned with this amazing lady and she you know she had all these great stories about teaching Elizabeth Taylor to meditate and Michael Jackson and all these people and she had great stories so it made it fun for me too to see her for all the training every day I was like oh what story are you going to tell me now so and then she also just took the pressure off and and when I would say like I don't think I can sit there for 20 minutes twice”
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“Which I'm not a great, amazing model meditator. I use it when I need it. And that's kind of helped me in a lot of ways. What type of”
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“You know, it's not how I want to do it. That's not the way that I want to feel. I don't want to feel stressed out or rushed or like, you know, because I feel like that's when I start getting in my head and I'll be like, I'm not good and, you know, all the bad things in my head. Like I'm not good enough. I don't know what I'm doing. They're going to find out I'm pretending to do this. They're going to find out I have no idea what I'm doing.”
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“And I just like taking my time. When you, I'm in such a better headspace when I spend much too much time preparing. I have a lot of bad experiences with being rushed. I mean, most recently I was performing at this party for Anastasia of Beverly Hills, and it was like all the Kardashians in presence. And I was sort of like in the dressing room, and there were some Kardashians in there. And I was being kind of bombarded and I get really stressed out when I'm being rushed, you know, to get ready. And I kind of got like, can you go on stage in 15 minutes? And I was like,”
2019-07-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #379: Dita Von Teese — The Queen of Burlesque · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Live so early. Well, there are a lot of, you know, yes, I can get ready within a certain timeframe, but when you start throwing in all of these things, like answering text messages and people asking you questions, you know, when I'm doing my tours, I arrive like five, six hours before because there's things like I want to look at the theater, I need to look at the stage, sometimes I need to set where the props are going to go because the stage is a different size than usual. But mostly it's like, why rush? It's part of the fun of it is getting ready. I love listening to music. I love listening to Tim Ferris podcasts in my dressing room. Thank you for that. Particularly the ones about psychedelic drugs.”
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“Yeah, this interview's done here. Yeah, it was actually Marilyn Manson's stylist when we lived together and she was like, oh, yeah, let's go look in your wardrobe. And she's a good friend of mine now. And it's all fine. You know, it's just that I always, you know, I figured out early on that I didn't need advice. You know, I don't, I don't need advice I want to wear. I know what to wear.”
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“I don't in my personal life. I am forced to often in my professional life, like for photo shoots, for magazine and whatnot, but I am self-styled, you know, when I go on the red carpet, I just pull from my own wardrobe or I have direct relationships with the designers. Which has kind of always been a good thing for me is having that direct contact with the people that I want to be dressed by, that whole machine of like hair, makeup, stylus, like I can't be bothered with all of it. I don't need it. I feel like I know if it looks right, it is right. And also, that's kind of what I built my whole career on is being self-made and in my books, empowering other women to be able to do whatever I can do.”
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“It's hard to say. I would suggest to anybody who interested just go and start watching May West clips, like watching some best ofs, like reels of her quick one-liners of the things she would say. That's what I would say. Because it's one of those things where the clips are almost better than the films and they're on their own”
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“I used to read aloud from that book in Paris. I lived in Paris for a short time and I'd get my friends together and we'd all drink champagne and read aloud from that book because it's so crazy.”
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“Yeah, she always knew how that's a biography about her that I really like. There's several, and of course, she wrote an autobiography. And if you can ever get your hands on, Love Sex and ESP. Okay, it's not health and ESP, sorry. That book is great.”
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“Admire. She went to prison for writing a play about sex. I mean, she was talking, she was sex positive at a time before it was popular. I mean, she wrote a play called Sex. I think she went to prison for like a week, but, you know, she loved it because she got to hang around all these other women and write more material and she felt like she came out better than ever because of it. Workshopped, the prison visit. So she is a fascinating person. I'm glad they're finally, there's some great books about her. One of my favorite one is she always knew how. But she also wrote.”
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“Well, you know, I mean, she appeared, I mean, there's a great documentary coming out about her. I hope people will watch, but she grew up a lot of people say she appropriated black culture with her swagger and the way she sang and talked and everything. And that was kind of an imprint of childhood because she was actually like a child actor in a minstrel show. So that was kind of like she just picked it up, you know, and turned it into something totally different. So that's, you know, that's one thing. But, you know, then we could also argue like she completely swirled it into something new and became May West. And, you know, May West is like this character that, you know, there's never been another one like her. And drag queens do May West. Everyone does May West. You know, it's like this character that we've never seen again. And when you squint your eyes, you're like, that's May West.”
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“For it, and she demanded it, and she was a sensation back then. So she's kind of like a sexual gangster too. You know, she was the one that flipped the script. Everything was, you know, women had a certain role in Hollywood and she was kind of like the male version. And even when you watch her film, she's objectifying men left and right. It's just astonishing to watch. And I can't think of anyone in history that's done what she's done since. I mean, to actually write every line in every film is kind of, and she made so many films. And of course, you know, there are some of her things about her that are problematic because it was a different time. But, you know.”
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“Okay, so May West is as fascinating. She was the biggest sex symbol in the 1930s. And the things that make her fascinating, the short version are, number one, she made her first film at age 40, and she was the biggest sex symbol of her time. So that's, imagine that now. Also, she wrote every line she ever said in every film. So when you look up May West quotes and you will get like the best quotes ever written, the best one-liners ever written, you know, she is that like, and that's what she said, you know, she's like the originator of that kind of quote. So, and then she went to the studio bosses when she made her first films and became a sensation. She said, how much does the studio boss get? I want more than that. And she got more than that. And she was the only person. She was the only actor, actress that made more than the studio bosses just because she asked.”
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“She's okay. She was an actress that has, I think there's still no one that's ever done what she has. Do you know much about May W”
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“I mean, because I watch people all the time that are like they'll imitate one of my shows, but then they act like they never saw me, they've never heard of me before, you know, because there's always that, everybody wants to be recognized. They want to be feel like they did something that was the first thing, you know, and they changed the world, but it's honestly like, why don't you do that first? And then you can, instead of just trying to sweep it under the rug that you saw, you know, you saw somebody else do it and you decided you were going to try to make it better, but you didn't.”
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“But not only that, people sometimes forget, and this is the thing that bothers me, she was the first person to sort of like, I'm going to make a music video on stage and the shows with all the dancers and, you know, all of it around her. She was the person that was like, I'm going to make this stage show that is a spectacle. And so every, you know, what bothers me is that people definitely have every show, that's the benchmark now. Everyone has to try to have all these dancers. They have to have designers making their outfits. They have to do all this stuff. But sometimes these people will forget that they wouldn't even, she's the one that paved the way for that and inspired everyone to do that. And it bothers me when somebody doesn't get credit for that.”
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“So That's just Think that my failures and not really finding what that thing that I might be amazing at is because I also am always fascinated by what you were saying. How does someone, you think of all these people that are walking around and what if they could have been the greatest whatever, but they were never given the opportunity or they weren't interested in it? Like what if they could have been the best basketball player or they could have been the best actor but like they never had the opportunity or the interest in trying it and there's probably people out there with hidden talents that could have been the best in the world and they would never even know it.”
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“And those are always the kind of singers I like. Like, I can't stand listening to vocal gymnastics when people are like the great singers of today. I like people that have flawed voices or interesting voices that communicate and always felt the same way about dance and myself. I'm just trying to communicate. I'm trying to be on stage instead of look like I'm trying to dance. You know, I get insulted a lot with, she's not that good of a dancer even. And I like, oh, actually, I probably could be, but I don't want to ever look like I'm trying too hard because to me, like, sensuality and eroticism is an epic fail. If you look like you're trying to do it, it's better to do less. You know, I mean, like, I even think when I watch someone like Beyonce, her best moments are when she stops, you know, she does all this crazy stuff and then she stops and breathes. And you're like, yes.”
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“Yeah, for some reason I've always loved people that have like shortcomings or when you always read about people's opinions like, oh, she's not that good of a singer. Why is she the most famous singer in the world? There are better. You know, I always loved those people. And so I'm kind of, you know, because I can relate to them, you know?”
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“Does that come from? I'm not necessarily sure if I felt that way at the time, but I think I've always been someone who kind of disappears into the work, whatever it is. I'm not someone who reacts unless I'm really provoked and pushed and then suddenly I can explode. But I certainly wasn't that way when I was a teenager. I think things would be different now if someone like my dad talked to me. And even when he does talk to me now, if he says something I don't agree with or that I'm offended by, like I wouldn't be that person that's like, I'm just going to go. I'm a little more confrontational with my father now”
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“Yeah, I don't know. It was more, it made me think about it a few years ago. I didn't think about that too much, but it made me think about how people have their own associations with certain things. And my association with lingerie and black lease and garter belts and stockings was kind of innocent one. Like I said, it goes back to that rite of passage of being a woman. Not sex, you know. Certainly I know how to use the tools of seduction and things like lingerie. I know how to use that in my personal life. But, you know, I don't, it's never been that for me. And I thought, oh, that's my dad putting his issues on me. It's not about me. And I still think that, and that's the conversation I need to have with my dad is like, I do understand that something that made him associate black garter belts and black lace with something bad with a wicked city woman and a prostitute, he was really disturbed by.”
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“Yeah, it was kind of like I feel like. I could recognize whatever my parents were going through and that a divorce is never easy on anyone and I was sort of like it's always very like relaxed about things like that and even looking back it wasn't traumatic. I sort of just went and lived with my mom and you know I had more freedom that way. It wasn't long after that that I You know, moved out, you know, it was a couple years later that I was kind of on my own.”
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“Lace lingerie things and hang them up in my bathroom, and my dad just had a fit about it and was calling me, you know, a whore and like horroring around with your boyfriend. And I was sort of like, what? You know, I was like, I have a credit card. I'm working in a lingerie store, selling lingerie to grown women. And it's a legitimate, it's not a sex store. I'm selling nightgowns to ladies in their 50s half the time. So my dad kind of threw me out of the house. I mean, he was drinking a lot at that time. So I went to go live with my mom, which was better for me because I've always been closer to my mom. And we've always understood each other a lot better than dads and daughters don't always understand each other that well. So that's the story of me getting thrown out of the house.”
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“Yeah, well, my parents were getting a divorce, and I always feel so bad talking about this for my dad because he'll, you know, it's one of those things I haven't really gotten around to like sitting down and talking to him about, but I will. So my parents were getting a divorce. My mother was having an affair with my dad's best friend. My dad was having an affair with his mistress back in Michigan. We're all living in Orange County at that time. They're both having this like, you know, their affairs with these different people. I'm 16 years old. I'm working in the lingerie store. I have the same boyfriend since I was like 14 years old. You know, I'm living my life. I'm working. I'm going to school. I'm working. I'm hanging out with my boyfriend. I'm not, you know, I'm not getting amazing grades, but I'm not getting bad grades. I'm not doing anything bad. And I'm working in the lingerie store and I'd wash my little black.”
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