The stunning burlesque star took to her Twitter page to update fans on her beauty plans.

Dita revealed that she is in Paris for meetings with perfumers to work on a scent.

The star gushed that her latest offering is going to be a standout smell.

“Big meeting this morning in paris to work with the perfumers on a new project… This one is going to be VERY unique, I’m excited! [sic],” she tweeted.

Earlier in the week Dita had revealed she is in the French capital for both work and play.

The raven-haired vixen mentioned photo shoots, costume fittings and fashion shows on her profile.

“Bonjour, Paris!” she wrote.

“In Paris for corset fittings w/Mr. Pearl, pic-plans w/ @Ali_Mahdavi ,tuxedo fitting w/ Alexis Mabille+a dose of haute couture @JPGaultier [sic].”

Dita already has one fragrance under her belt, titled Femme Totale.

She also has a range of other beauty merchandise including false nails, haircare products and underwear collections.

Source: Belfast Telegraph

Striptease queen Dita Von Teese stands only 5-foot-5, but the powerful porcelain princess packs a provocative punch when she’s undressing for fans who bow to her as the International Queen of Burlesque. At the new Hyde Bellagio, the bombshell brunette ruled with a sultry midnight performance set against the dancing Bellagio Fountains.

Talk about champagne wishes! She popped the cork on a magnum once she’d peeled down to just pasties and a G-string after shedding her waist cincher, stockings, corset, bra and lacy gloves. Not a drop of the bubbly went to waste because she poured it all over her and took a couple of sips before climbing into her large champagne glass.

Her near-naked ambition sparked a frenzy of flashing cell phones and cameras, and there were just as many on the red carpet to start her night. Clubgoers swarmed her outside the lavish nightspot when she arrived looking glamorous in a black Herve L. LeRoux dress with Christian Louboutin stiletto heels and red lips. Hyde’s performance artists joined the pinup beauty, posing in cellophane dresses and masks.

“I wanted to come to Hyde because I know the group puts on great events. I knew this would be a fun party more than anything,” Dita said. “I’m bringing some of the showgirl burlesque back to Vegas. I’m doing the real version, which is the same way it was done in the 1930s and 40s. That’s what burlesque really was.”

Dita took to the stage at midnight Saturday in an haute-couture costume adorned with thousands of Swarovski crystals. It was a journey of fantasy and spectacle as she teased the cheering crowd, including yours truly and Editor Don Chareunsy. She danced around the mega-sized champagne glass peeling off layer after layer of clothing and untying the corset from her tiny, laced-up 17-inch waist. The crowd was transfixed: Not one person watched the Bellagio Fountains while she tormented with her torrid tossing, teasing and temptation.

Earlier when Dita and I chatted, she told me that she wants to live and work more this year in America after living half the year in Paris while traversing the globe for her appearances.

“I had to travel a lot promoting my lingerie and perfume lines and for Cointreau. My makeup line is next! I did six countries in 2 weeks just a month ago! It’s been a year, but I did get to Vegas under the radar to film a secret TV show 2 weeks ago. I wanted tonight to be a raucous, one-off, one-time performance with all the pressures off.”

The one-time lingerie sales girl who danced weekends at our Crazy Horse Strip Club continued: ”Coming to Vegas is always the most fun. I love being able to pull out all the stops when I build a show for Vegas. I know a lot of the shows here have copied my creations, but I’m still the original. The retro showgirl has been disappearing from Vegas, but I’m bringing her back.

“I appreciate Cirque, but we mustn’t let the history of Vegas vanish. We’ve got to retain risque! I don’t want what I do to become politically correct. The real good parts of burlesque have been taken away, but I think we can still be naughty and classy as we bare all. Let’s be honest: That’s why the audience comes in the first place!

“I’m not ready to hang up my G-strings, but that will come at some point. I’ve begun thinking about the transition, but I’m working hard for a long time to come. This May, we have a huge Live Nation tour. It’s a full production spectacle kicking off in Vegas this May. Life is good, and all my projects are humming nicely.”

After changing following her perky performance, burlesque’s brightest star mingled with friends in the club. Tonight, Hyde throws its second Lost Angels insider party with DJ 88 and Devon Lucian. Thank to Shane O’Neal and Scott Harrison for their photo gallery.

Source: Las Vegas Weekly

The stunning burlesque star is unveiling Von Follies by Dita Von Teese in February 2012 via Target Australia stores. The range will be hitting shops on February 8 – just in time for Valentine’s Day, and Dita is thrilled about the timing.

“It’s the perfect time to treat yourself or someone special to a glamorous piece from my new collection,” she told WWD.

“I am excited to see my Australian fans again.”

Dita will return to Australia in March to kick off the launch of Von Follies by Dita Von Teese. She will also hit the runway for Target at the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival.

The beauty’s underwear line is set to be a success says Murray Chenery, general manager of marketing for Target Australia.

“The product mix is a true reflection of Dita’s own personal style and Target is confident it will resonate with customers who are inspired by beautiful, affordable and great quality garments,” Murray explained.

Von Follies by Dita Von Teese is a 26 piece collection and features luxurious vintage-inspired garments and includes many of the star’s favourites such as high-waisted panties and overwire bras.

This is Dita’s second underwear line. In 2008 she teamed up with Wonderbra to design a capsule collection.

Source: Belfast Telegraph

The burlesque star is unveiling the new line, titled Von Follies by Dita Von Teese, in February 2012 via Target Australia stores.

The new lingerie line will feature luxurious vintage inspired garments and includes many of her favourites such as high waisted panties and overwire bras.

“There are so many vintage lingerie pieces I love that I haven’t been able to find in all my years of collecting,” she said.

“I wanted to design pieces that are tributes to my vintage obsessions, to make them beautiful and functional, while modernising them for everyday wear. I’ve had a long-time fascination with the 1950′s era over wire bras. It’s something that has been quite a task to create, but the end result is so chic, and so unique, I’m very proud of it. It’s a statement piece meant to be seen.”

The line is designed to flatter the feminine curves. With this in mind, Dita ensured that her collection catered for a wide range of sizes with selected bra styles available up to an E-cup and briefs up to size 20.

“It was very important to me to offer lingerie in a large range of sizes,” she explained.

“Size range was one of the first things I asked when I was approached to create this collection. It was important to me to accomplish the task of making these beautiful things in sizes that can make any woman feel sexy and glamorous, and I’m very proud that we have been able to do that, while keeping prices affordable.”

Prices start at $17, with more elaborate bustiers and fitted corsets ranging from $79.

This is Dita’s second underwear line. In 2008 she teamed up with Wonderbra to design a capsule collection.

For more photos of the new lingerie line, click here for a slideshow.

Source: SMH

Von Teese will appear on behalf of Target Australia on the LMFF Runway at Central Pier on Saturday March 10.

Her appearance at the festival will be a world first, with Von Teese taking to the runway to showcase some of her favourite designs from her new underwear range for Target.

The first pieces from the Von Follies by Dita Von Teese collection will be available in Target stores nationally from early February, with new product lines to be introduced in March.

“I am delighted to celebrate the launch of Von Follies by Dita Von Teese, my debut lingerie collection for Target Australia at the 2012 L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival. I look forward to appearing on the coveted runway for the first time in my very own designs,” said Von Teese.

Festival CEO Graeme Lewsey said he was delighted that Von Teese would return.

“Dita Von Teese is an international style icon and we look forward to welcoming her to the LMFF Runway. She will add undeniable glamour and a sense of theatre to the show,” he said.

Source: Herald Sun

The dominatrix name, unnervingly polished look and fact that she’s a star of fetish porn leads me to expect a certain hardness from Dita Von Teese. She’s made her living as the pin-up girl of new burlesque; a raven-haired, ghostly faced strip artist whose martini glass routines took the movement to new levels of creativity. I’m braced for someone brash; the Dita I meet is anything but.

Softly spoken and reserved, it’s hard to reconcile this demure but glamorous woman who tells me she’s “really shy” her raunchy vixen image.

Von Teese is tiny, a doll-like figure in her satin frock, making other women in the room look as though they lumbered in from Brobdingnag. She’s the most immaculate human being I have ever met. From her all-masking make-up to the chip-less manicured nails and shiny coiffed hair, it’s like looking at a painting.

So does she always keep it up, this gloss? Surely she must bowl around in a baggy jumper sometimes, I ask hopefully.

“I’m highly motivated by the fact that I don’t want to be recognised looking terrible and paparazzi come out when you least expect it,“ Von Teese says.

“I have a trick. I always wear red lipstick and sunglasses and put my hair back in a chignon, but underneath I have no make-up on. And, sometimes, under my coat I have nothing on.

“I’m notorious for going to the grocery store with nothing on under my coat, because I just don’t feel like choosing a dress. It’s too much trouble, I’ll just go naked under here.”

Popping to the corner shop naked? That’s more in keeping with my image of Von Teese. This is, after all, the girl who began a career – under her birth name Heather Renée Sweet – working in the strip bars of Orange County, US.

“I was performing in seedy strip bars for six people,“ she recalls. “I remember being in a small town called Fon Du Lac, Wisconsin, where I had an ad in the newspaper and I thought that was it. I was like, ’this is the height of my fame. This is my 15 minutes!’“

Von Teese was born in Rochester, Michigan, the daughter of a manicurist and a machinist. It was her mother who fostered her love of retro style and 1940s glamour. As a teenager, Von Teese says she didn’t get too involved in school activities.

“I just kind of minded my own business, worked in the lingerie store, hung out with my best friend and my boyfriend,” she explains.
Many celebrities claim they were ugly ducklings as teenagers. Not Von Teese. “Me and my girlfriend weren’t ‘popular’, but we were pretty cool and hot,” she says.

This contrast between personal reticence and sexual confidence is the crux of Von Teese’s allure.

She sits primly on her chair, talking in a soft voice; the model of gentle femininity. It almost feels wrong to question her about anything risqué and, in the event, I can’t bring myself to ask about the hardcore fetish videos she made in her 20s. But her shyness does not extend to the realm of her sexual power; about this she is supremely confident.

Von Teese’s performances are showcases of the female body; in this case, one that is damn near perfect. At 39, Von Teese is as firm-buttocked and perky-breasted as she was a decade ago, and her commanding, sexually charged stage persona seems at odds with the woman I sit talking to.

It’s a contradiction Von Teese acknowledges.

“I’m not shy about what I do for a living, making my show, and going on stage,” she says. “I created all of the rules for what I do. But I feel shy when I’m asked questions I don’t know how to answer. I feel shy that I’m speaking in my funny American accent that some people make fun of. I realise I built up an image, but I don’t have any interest in changing my persona.”

She even claims to be bashful around men, however unlikely that may seem. “I’m not very aggressive when I see a guy I like. I’m still the girl that gets really nervous. I don’t have a plan on how to seduce someone that I don’t know,“ she says.
I wonder if being Dita Von Teese, the rightly crowned Queen of Burlesque, is a huge pressure to live up to. Do men expect her to stay in femme fatale mode 24/7?

How exhausting. Does she ever, I ask, just want to have boring sex and wear her manky period pants.

“When I’m with somebody who really cares about me they like seeing both sides of me,” she says.

“It’s funny because when you wear garter belts and stockings every day, it becomes old hat for men and then they’re just excited to see those manky period pants you were talking about!”

The image of Von Teese in baggy, greying underwear is not one I can conjure, but I’m grateful to her for making me feel better. Von Teese lives usually between her homes in LA and Paris. She is in London promoting the exclusive Piccadilly speakeasy she has co-designed, Cointreau Privé.

“It’s a really luxurious bar where you can have dinner or a cocktail. I’ve chosen everything on the menu,“ she says. “It’s a really sexy place.“ The speakeasy is decorated by select objects from Von Teese’s LA home, a place she describes as being like a dolls-house, but with “good lighting“.

Cointreau Privé is one of many sideline projects she works on: Von Teese also writes books, designs lingerie and dresses, just launched her first fragrance and has campaigned for AIDS awareness. She has been the global ambassador and face of Cointreau since 2007.

But Von Teese’s heart belongs to burlesque and watching her perform – behind fans, feathered, nipple-tasseled, sometimes galloping atop a fairground horse, once naked save for £3million of diamonds – it’s hard not to be impressed by the artistry of it all.

But is it really so different from straightforward, sliding-around-a-pole stripping? Burlesque has become a socially accepted stalwart of middle class nights out, while strip clubs are largely seen as seedy and morally questionable.

Crazy, agrees Von Teese, who says she always tells people she’s a stripper when they ask her what she does. “If you were sitting here with Gypsy Rose Lee in the 30s and you asked her what the difference between stripping and burlesque was, she would be completely baffled.

’Stripping’ wasn’t a bad word back then. The trick is, can you change people’s minds about what it is to be a stripper?“

Watch Dita talk about shyness, naked shopping and ‘manky pants’ here.

Dita Von Teese launches the Cointreau Privé, London’s most exclusive speakeasy, open for a limited three-week period from November 30. Visit www.cointreauprive.co.uk

Source: TNT Magazine

Burlesque star and style icon Dita Von Teese visited London this week to launch Cointreau Privé, a lavish pop-up bar at 215 Piccadilly (in what was the Pigalle Club). Dita is global ambassador for Cointreau and along with performing her ‘Be Cointreauversial’ show in a giant cocktail glass at the celeb-studded bar opening, last night she hosted a cocktail-making class which the Catwalk Queen team were lucky enough to attend.

Dita – looking as polished as ever in a Dolce & Gabbana lace dress with seamed stockings and Christian Louboutin shoes – claimed she never drinks alone, so with her guidance (and a bit of help from a master mixologist) we whipped up the bar’s signature cocktail, Cointreau Citrus and Spice, and joined her in a toast!

Cointreau Privé itself is modelled after Dita’s own home, with boudoir decor reminiscent of her signature style, and the amazing corseted costume she wore for her performance is now on display at the venue. The Cointreau Privé is guestlist only, but you can book a place and see Dita’s world for yourself by visiting Cointreauprive.co.uk . The pop-up bar is open until December 17th.

Source: Catwalk Queen

I’ve added three sets of candids of Dita from the past few days. She was seen attending ‘The Cure’ concert, arriving in Heathrow airport and outside ITV Studios. Enjoy!