pocket venus: dita von teese

Vintage Dita by Peter W. Czernich (2008)

Vintage Dita by Peter W. Czernich (2008)
2008, Hardcover
Published by Edition Skylight

Vintage Dita is widely available, the Book Depository often has the best price.

“This book, a timeless vintage portfolio shows Dita Von Teese between 1996 and 2004, whose rise to celebrity status was just a heartbeat away. Today, Dita is a style icon and admired by countless women everywhere. She regularly models for the big fashion houses and has a permanent place at the Paris catwalks. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Oscar Awards Ceremony or the Opera Ball, it’s not the same if Dita isn’t there.

This book reveals a side to Dita that is well known to the public, i.e. her fetish for corsets (she has more than 100 tailor-made ones), her fetish for shoes (‘I never leave home without my high heals on’), as well as other fetishes such as bondage and latex. For the front cover of the 25th issue of Marquis magazine, I was even allowed to paint her from top to toe in silver! Dita Von Teese has created a style of classic proportions, and she is certainly in a class of her own. People used to call her ‘today’s Bettie Page’ but the comparison is out of place, as Dita is better than Bettie ever was.”

- Peter W. Czernich