You know this cover is not in the US. Dita covers german Playboy. I love her old classic style. Just in case you don’t know:
Her burlesque career has included some memorable performances, she once performed at a benefit for the New York Academy of Art wearing nothing but $5 million worth of diamonds. Additionally, Von Teese became the first ever guest star to perform at the Parisian Crazy Horse cabaret club when she appeared there in October, 2006. Also in 2006, Von Teese appeared on an episode of America’s Next Top Model cycle 7 doing a “workshop” to teach the contestants about sexiness by means of burlesque dancing and posing.
Cameron Diaz performed a tribute to Von Teese’s martini glass routine in the film Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. Von Teese’s name appears in the credits, listed under “Special Thanks”. It is rumoured that this was only added after Dita threatened to sue the film makers for stealing her idea.
Von Teese’s first book, which consisted of her opinions on the history of burlesque and fetish, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese, was published in 2006 by HarperCollins. Vanity Fair called her “a Burlesque Superheroine.”
You can make a career out of just about anything…
