Quotes from 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.

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don't know why.

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.

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

I was really, really shy when I was a little girl.

I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

I prefer the competitive atmosphere of a classroom setting, like yoga or Pilates. That keeps me going. Although performing on stage is great exercise!

People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.

Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.

I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.

I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute.

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.

Red lips don't look good on blotchy, uneven skin.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

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.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.

I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the '40s and '50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.

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.