She is widely known for her fascination with the 1940s cinemas and elegant retro fashion which was encouraged by her mum who was a fan of old Hollywood films. Dita Von Teese is known by her birth name as Heather Renie Sweet was born on September 28, 1972 and brought up her manicurist and machinist parents in Rochester Michigan.
From her early age she always wanted to be a ballerina and later was trained as a ballet dancer and did her first ballet single at the age of thirteen for a local ballet corporation. The family moved to the orange county in California where Von Teese schooled at the university high school in Irvine. She was taken to but her first bra by her mother and she was disappointed to have them made of white plain cotton since she was hoping to receive lacy garments and stockings. All the same this made her passion for lingerie to grow and with this she started working in a lingerie shop at the age of fifteen. She studied historic costuming in college, trained as a costume designer and always aimed to work as a stylist for films.
Von started her life career at a local strip club at the age of eighteen where she met more disappointment because she saw no originality in the work of the other strippers’ acts therefore she stated developing vintage-inspired outfits accompanied by a beehive hair style together with long elbow gloves that were coupled with a Basque and ridged stockings. She immediately began glamour modeling before becoming a fetish model that made her copy Bettie Page in photo shoots. Due to her originality Von’s website was termed the first model website in the internet. She appeared in a number of fetish magazine covers namely, bizarre and marquis, this made her appear in Midori’s cover book ‘the seductive art of Japanese bondage’. She was later in 1999, 2001 and 2002 featured in ‘playboy’ Von was taken by the Germany metal atrocity band as the cover model for their album- werk 80.
Von was termed the queen of burlesque even by the media, she became the first guest star to perform at the Parisian crazy horse club in October 2006, and the same year she appeared in the episode 7 of the Americas top model to teach the then models sexiness using burlesque dancing skills and poses. Occasionally she has done acting and she appeared in a soft-core pornography in movies like ‘romancing Sara’ and ‘matter of trust’. She has also acted in the hard-core fetish films like ‘pin ups 2’ and ‘decadence’.
Von has been listed as the best dressed many times, she has always looked fashionable in the Christian Dior and marc Jacobs fashion labels. She has done a number of catwalks ad this was evident in Los Angeles fashion week during club kid Richie Rich’s label.
Von was asked by Marilyn Manson to dance in one of her music videos, though she was unable to, this was how the two met. On his 32nd birthday she presented a bottle of absinthe and this is how they became a couple. They got married in November 2005 in their home privately and later held a larger ceremony in December the same year at the Kilsheelan Ireland. On the eve of Christmas von left their home empty-handed without mentioning the reason for her separation from Marilyn to Marilyn, they later file for a divorce in December 29 2007.
