| DITA VON TEESE is finally giving us all the opportunity to buy into her brand of high-voltage glamour - by collaborating with Wonderbra on a limited edition lingerie collection, entitled "Wonderbra by Dita Von Teese". Featuring three 'stories', we're promised a sexy take on Von Teese's Forties-influenced burlesque style when the collection launches in September. "I've been passionate about beautiful lingerie my entire life, so to team up with Wonderbra is a great privilege for me and I am immensely proud of my collection," Von Teese tells DRAPERSONLINE.COM. "I really hope that with this new range I can share my passion for sensual, wearable lingerie that will add a touch of glamour to people's lives." Wonderbra's European marketing director, Debbie Rix, adds: "Dita understands how to make a woman feel sexy. She is a natural fit for the Wonderbra brand." 
Internationally known fetish supermodel Dita Von Teese was born Heather Renee Sweet on September 28, 1972, in Rochester, Michigan. The popular dancer and pin-up model trained to be a ballerina, but when she was fifteen she worked as a salesgirl in a lingerie store. When she was nineteen she began her career in a local strip club. Dita later became a fetish model, and finally a burlesque star, and was featured in Playboy Magazine seventeen times. She is known for her "girl in the glass" performance, where she baths in a champagne filled crystal-clear glass bathtub, and also for starring the fetish videos "Naked and Helpless," "Bound in Stockings" and in "Tickle Party: Volume 2." Her most famous role was as Mrs. Marilyn Manson, where she starred from March 2004 to December 2006. Prior to their break-up, they lived in Laurel Canyon with their four Devon Rex cats and two dachshunds dogs. 
Date of Birth 28 September 1972, Rochester, Michigan, USA
Birth Name Heather Renée Sweet
Height 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Spouse | Marilyn Manson | (3 December 2005 - present) (filed for divorce) | Trade Mark Her "woman in a giant martini glass" routine. Raven coloured hair 
Trivia Is a popular dancer and pin-up model. Measurements: 32C-21-33 (Source:Celebrity Sleuth magazine) At her wedding with Marilyn Manson, she wore a royal purple silk taffeta Vivienne Westwood gown complete with train and petticoats worn over a Mr. Pearl couture corset. Her outfit was accessorized with a tri-corn hat by Stephen Jones and shoes by Christian Louboutin. Her engagement ring from Marilyn Manson is a 7-carat, antique, European round-cut diamond. Named herself Dita after Dita Parlo. 
Often compared to Burlesque artist Gypsy Rose Lee, not only for their work in burlesque, but also for their shared love of haute couture fashions. Thanked at the end of Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) because she helped train them for their dance routine. Posed nude for the December 2002 issue of Playboy magazine. She was photographed by her then-future husband, Marilyn Manson. Born at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester, Michigan. Filed for divorce from Marilyn Manson, citing irreconcilable differences. [December 2006] Ranked #82 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list. 
Personal Quotes
"I always get billed as 'Dita, internationally known fetish supermodel I'm really a small town girl from Michigan who has a good laugh that being a fancy-pants stripper got me here! "Some people say what I do isn't very liberating. I say it's pretty liberating to get $20,000 for 10 minutes work." "Neither of us is ready. I don't feel that we need to have children to validate our marriage and I don't need children to claim I'm a fulfilled woman." I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute. "I've lost my luggage before and not had my makeup, and he's lost his luggage and not had his makeup - so it's great that we're always covered." 
'Queen of Burlesque' Dita von Teese to become face - and body - of Wonderbra It seems a match made in underwear heaven: one of the world's best-known lingerie brands and a woman most famous for parading round in nothing but spangly bra and knickers. Dita von Teese, 35, the sexy striptease artist who reintroduced the world to the joys of burlesque, is set to become the new face of Wonderbra, it was announced today. Known as The Queen of Burlesque, von Teese is feted for having rejuvenated the 1940s art of classic striptease and is famed for both her feather fan dance and her "bathtub" show.  Self-styled Queen of Burlesque, Dita von Teese, will design and model a new range of Wonderbras The former wife of goth rock star Marilyn Manson, she is also designing her own limited edition collection of Wonderbra underwear. Her designs will draw on 1940s lingerie styles and vintage underwear fashion – a style that von Teese has made her own. Her famous stage act, in which she writhes around in a giant martini glass, was the subject of a light-hearted homage in the film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.  Von Teese was in Paris for Christian Lacroix's fashion show last night She is also a famous wearer of tightlaced corsets which are able to restrict her already diminutive waist down to an incredible 16 and a half inches. Von Teese can regularly be seen on stage in oversize champagne glasses and once performed naked save for $5million worth of diamonds for a benefit show at the New York Academy of Art. The former glamour model has even outlined her unique take on undressing in public in a bestselling book Burlesque And The Art Of The Teese/Fetish And The Art Of The Teese. The burlesque star follows in the footsteps of glamorous models Eva Herzigova and Adriana Karembeu, who have previously modelled for the iconic push-up bra brand. She will model the new collection for a Wonderbra photo shoot in Paris in the next few weeks.  Former Wonderbra models Eva Herzigova and Adriana Karembeu Von Teese said: "I really hope that with this new range, I can share my passion for sensual, wearable lingerie that will add a touch of glamour to people's everyday lives." Wonderbra by Dita von Teese will hit stores in the UK and France in September. (courtesy of www.thedailymail.co.uk) 
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