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Lingerie Queen Dita Von Teese rebels against skinny models

by Andy Burns

March 08, 2012

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BURLESQUE queen Dita Von Teese has rejected at least 12 aspiring lingerie models for being too skinny.

Von Teese spoke out yesterday after two days of auditioning models for Saturday night’s Target Von Follies on Docklands’ Central Pier runway.

“Of course I want to show all different types and more voluptuous girls,” she said.

“The times where we said no to models were mostly when they were too skinny.

“We gave a lot of models the axe for being too skinny …quot; we probably turned away a dozen.”

Von Teese said use of super-slim models set a bad example.

She said: “It’s important to me we show curvaceous women and fuller-figured girls … lingerie looks terrific on girls with shape.”

Designer Gwendolynne Burkin also has lamented being offered models too thin for her clothing.

“How on Earth am I supposed to sell to my real clients when agencies and show organisers cast models who are too skinny?” the local designer posted on Facebook yesterday.

“Please know I do not cast these skinny girls.”

Burkin said of the skinny look: “It’s nuts and so obvious they are underweight, but it keeps happening.

“I know this debate comes up every fashion week and they blame designers. I get annoyed when people think it’s the designers dictating the casting.”

She said of one model yesterday: “The girl was so slender, there were bones.”

Burkin said agencies encouraged models to be slimmer.

“I know a prominent model who has an eating disorder … she is so slender and as long as she keeps getting booked she’ll keep doing it,” she said.

L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival director Graeme Lewsey said the industry had made great strides on healthy body image and the festival had made particular efforts to weed out unhealthy girls.

There would be no skeletal girls on his runways, he said, adding: “I’d go straight to the agency and say ‘she is not looking as she should’.”

It was at the discretion of designers and brand ambassadors to choose who they wanted on the runway.

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Von Follies By Dita Von Teese For Target

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Today was the day I had eagerly been waiting for, the launch of the Von Follies By Dita Von Teese For Target collection! Firstly, it must be said how incredibly lucky we are to receive this amazing collaboration between Dita Von Teese and Target in Australia. Dita Von Teese is a world icon, and I am sure that America, along with many other countries around the world, would have given anything to have also received her collection! The actual collection itself did not disappoint, and it was everything that Dita said it would be and more. The pieces in the collection are of amazing quality, the prints are so classic and gorgeous, and the price range is very affordable! My pick? The spot/mesh pieces in the collection, which are very, subtle, feminine and just too adorable!

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RAGMAG (Lebanon) February, 2012

Photography by Ali Mahdavi (perfume ad), Lev Radin, Getty Images

Article by Fida Chaaban

RAGMAG is a social, educational and entertainment magazine based in Beirut, Lebanon. Dita Von Teese content is featured across 17 pages, including the cover, a 12-page article (including interview) with many full page burlesque and event photos, a two page spread on Dita’s red carpet style and a signature frangrance advertisment. Clearly a magazine that knows how to feature Dita properly!

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