Dita Von Teese says old men's magazines gave her inspiration
Dita Von Teese reveals that old magazines from the forties helped to provide inspiration for her latest lingerie collection, but it was important that the pieces were functional.
The burlesque dancer wanted her latest collection to be more functional and wearable than previous designs, and took plenty of inspiration to help create it.
She studied her own collection of vintage underwear, as well as designs featured in old catalogues and publications for her Von Follies line.
She said to the Daily Star: "It is based on times past - not replicas of vintage lingerie but finding ways of making it more functional and wearable.
"I'm just trying to show women that you can have little bits of luxury and glamour in everyday life and these are things that actually serve a purpose with your shape and how you feel in clothes.
"It's inspired by vintage pieces that I've collected in the last 23 years. I also have a lot of vintage pin-up art, old catalogues, and men's magazines from the 30s and 40s, so I get a lot of ideas from those."
And the 41 year old was stunned when she was first asked to design an underwear line as her first-ever job was in a lingerie store and that was what kick-started her career.
She explained: "My love of lingerie is what first sparked my entire career as it is. I started working in an underwear store when I was 15, and that's the real reason I started re-creating pin-up photos.
"I was already dressing retro style so my love of lingerie carried over to retro lingerie and I began to collect.
"When I had the opportunity to make my own designs, it was really like a sort of: 'Wow, full-circle moment.'"
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