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TBDs withstanding, the star has definitely managed to transform the 3,square-foot four-bedroom Tudor Revival—style home to match her inimitable punk pinup aesthetic. I am a maximalist. My first order of business was going through room by room and adding color and excitement to the room. The living room is where Von Teese takes a lot of her meetings, so it was important that the room was both beautiful and functional. The blue couch is a reproduction from a favorite store in Dallas called Deco-Dence. The original was too small, and so the owners made a version at a larger, more modern scale. The ultimate resource for design industry professionals, brought to you by the editors of Architectural Digest. An antiques and taxidermy obsessive, Von Teese holds the past—its sensibility and attention to detail—in reverence. She was adamantly opposed to bulldozing through with a conventional modern-things-up design approach. The owner even got married here.
Von Teese was born in Rochester, Michigan , the second of three daughters. But on weekend afternoons, my mom and I had a front seat on a rocket ship to those faraway worlds by way of the old movies starring the most glamorous creatures --Betty Grable, Mae West, Carmen Miranda, Marlene Dietrich They were our muses. This began at a young age and was fostered by her mother, who would buy clothes for her daughter to dress up. Her mother was a fan of old, Golden Age-era Hollywood films , and from her Von Teese developed a fascination with the actresses of that day, especially Betty Grable. She was classically trained as a ballet dancer from an early age, and danced solo at age 13 for a local ballet company. Though she originally wanted to be a ballerina , Von Teese states that "by 15, I was as good as I'd ever be. The family relocated from Michigan to Orange County, California , when her father's job moved. When Von Teese was a teenager, her mother took her to buy her first bra , made from plain white cotton, and gave her a plastic egg containing a pair of wrinkly, flesh-colored pantyhose. This fueled her passion for lingerie.
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