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    Dita Von Teese looks back: ‘Going into that fetish store sparked my entire career’

    Jun 25, 2022 4 minutes
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    Dita Von Teese in 1991 and 2022. Later photograph: Pål Hansen/The Guardian. Styling: Bridget Veal. Hair: Sarah Wood at Necia. Makeup: Aimee Adams. Archive image: courtesy of Dita Von Teese

    Heather Renée Sweet, better known as Dita Von Teese, is the 1950s-inspired model and performer who helped repopularise burlesque. Raised in West Branch, a working-class rural town in Michigan, she started her career as a fetish model and stripper before moving into burlesque and becoming a brand herself, launching vintage-inspired and fetishistic lingerie and makeup lines. Her tours are known for their ornate sets and costumes, a spectacle of giant champagne glasses and bronze clam shells. Aged 49, she takes her Glamonatrix tour across Europe this year.

    He was a very shy art student and approached me to ask if he

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