And now for my continuing devotion to how Dita Von Teese dresses for casual, non-red-carpet outings. I think I like her so-called “casual-wear” more than her formal-wear. This is honestly how Dita dresses when she’s out, running errands or going to lunch. I would probably hate this whole look on anyone else – but much like Cate Blanchett, who brings an elegance to even a humble hoodie, Dita’s natural glamour (with a dash of kitsch) gives even “garden party” ensembles a little something extra.
You know what I appreciate? Dita does matchy-matchy very well. Dita’s style rule seems to be: Don’t match every single item to each other – you wear a beautiful print, and you pull different colors out of the print in your accessories, and it looks fabulous and pulled together. The green shoes, the purple-fuchsia headscarf, both mimicking the color palette of the dress without being overkill. And red lips, always and forever. Thankfully, Dita knows how to work a red lip like few others.
By the way, Dita is launching her first fragrance. She’s not going to put her name to just anything, though. She’s been working with Luxesse for months to launch a perfume and a lingerie collection simultaneously, and Dita says the scent includes, “Bulgarian rose, tiare, peony — and there’s a sexy wood.” What isn’t in the perfume? “There’s no fruity vanilla bull—t. I’m sorry, but you know what I mean? A lot of celebrity fragrances are fruit, vanilla, and I wanted something for grown-up girls.” Haha “vanilla bulls–t.” Classic.
Unfortunately, Dita had to stop wearing her previous signature scent because her hot boyfriend’s mother wore the same perfume: “My signature fragrance that I’ve been wearing since I was 14 is Quelques Fleurs, and I had to stop wearing it because my boyfriend’s mother wore it. So that was a perfect time to develop my own fragrance.” Her boyfriend? Count Louis-Marie de Castelbajac. His mom? The Marquise Catherine. Can you imagine wearing the same perfume as your dude’s mom? That’s totally wrong, right? Gross.
Oh, would you like to see Dita’s hot-ass boyfriend again? Sure! WHY NOT?
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
She could throw a burlap bag on and she would still rock it. Beautiful woman!
I think she needs to find a glammed-up-but-more-casual day make up. This outfit is killer as per usual.
I wonder if she’s ever just…normal, or if she’s like Lady Gaga and puts this schtick on intentionally every time she leaves the house.
Cuuuuuute!! That dress is lovely. And I love the shoes. Fabulous outfit. But I agree with 2. gee that she needs some changes in her make-up routine. Jeez, would it kill her to lay off the super-whitening pancake? And don’t tell me that ‘she’s naturally fair-skinned.’ I am a very fair girl and my skin is nowhere as white as hers. It looks ridiculous.
Oh, and her ‘boyfriend’ may be ‘hot-ass’, but we’re using the term ‘boyfriend’ loosely here, are we not? No way that guy is straight.
i love dita. she always looks amazing and beautiful. i always “melt” when someone tells me that my style remind them of her. =)
and that’s a hot couple.
Dita makes me proud to be a woman. Amazing as always
I love it! I want the dress and shoes. Dita’s very pretty.
She always looks beautiful!
Her out-&-about clothes often sing of 1950s films to me.
She has a very good eye for what suits her – something rarely seen these days.
Looove the look – especially those shoes!
I live in fear of my bf’s mum buying the same perfume as me. Wearing the same fragrance is an absolute no-no. Sometimes my boyfriend smells like my dad and I don’t seem to mind…I’m wrong!
I saw her at the Las Vegas airport once. She is just perfect. I’d love to carry off her look.
She is just so damn gorgeous. She can do absolutely no wrong. Does anyone know where she gets her clothes? I want that dress! And her shoes!
Massive girl crush on Dita – love her, she can do no wrong!
This outfit on anyone else would be totally fug. But she rocks it!
this woman can never go wrong with what she wears. She always looks amazing!
Holy royal hotness.
Love everything about her, she always looks perfect.
Such an attractive couple. Sorry, I don’t care that it’s Dita, I can’t get with the outfit, I really hate it. Garden party for sure.
I think she’s a total bore.
I would totally wear that outfit to an outdoor summer wedding. Lovely.
She can do no wrong.
Oh, Dita. I love Dita so very, very much. I love seeing her casual outfits, I love seeing her at formal events. No matter what she’s doing, I’m always happy to see her!
I want her sunglasses.
Wow, I’ve worn Quelque Fleurs too.
I’m with her on the vanilla bullshit. HATE it. Blech.
PS I bet she dresses and makes up like this when she knows she will be, or wants to be photographed. She’s got such a trademark look that I bet she runs around unrecognized when she’s not done up as Dita.
i really dont understand all this love for a gloryfied stripper. i guess its easy to impress women nowadays-just dress in an old fashioned style and they think your amazing!!!!
Cherry, I am snickering at your comment, as I am also very fair-skinned, but don’t assess Dita’s skin tone or makeup based on my own paleness. So her makeup is pale. Dita is stylish & gorgeous & nothing about her looks ridiculous!
And that’s not a gay guy, IMHO.
She is simply divine……….
This woman is so stuck in a time warp, I find her totally uninteresting. She can never update her look? Flour white skin, dark red lips, dyed black hair, clothes from the 50s. She reminds me of Joan Crawford. Utterly boring.
Beautiful. Her boyfriend is so yummy! She definitely did an upgrade from Marilyn Manson.
@Bluhare – Nope. Dita dresses like this all the time. She’s said this in many interviews. Whether she’s out and about as Dita von Teese, or out as Heather Renee Sweet, this is what she wears.
At least she dresses like a lady, and not like a teenager.
I just want to roll around in her closet. I love love love her clothes so much! And on anyone else, frankly, it would look weird, but she pulls it off flawlessly.
Dull, pasty and one chin inch away from a Willis.
Gorg!! And yes her b/f is straight. Euro guys often have a faint whiff of metro-bordering-on-gayness about them, but it works with the clothes, the manors, the accent and (in this case) the title and the youth.
Ahh the youth. I see her with an older, established man (the Count is like 11 years younger). They make a smashing couple though …
I do love Dita’s classy vintage style, but I don’t like the dress, even though I had one like it in the 80’s.
I love that she has her own style and could give two shits whether anyone like it as long as she does.
She does her look so perfectly and always looks flawless.
But I hate walking in those kinds of shoes that fwap the back of my foot lol. soo irritating.
Came across a fantastic little newspaper piece from back when she was divorcing Marilyn Mansun. Man, she calls him out. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2007/jul/08/magazine.features7
Dita posts are always special. Her style is fabulous, as always.
I’m with Dita on the tragedy of someone else wearing your fragrance. I keep the names of my favs on the DL because I was “fragrance stalked” by a friend who now wears my former favorite.
Dita looks like she’s starring in a Douglas Sirk film. She always gets the look right, it never seems like a costume on her. LOVE the dress and the scarf, and the adorable Barbie shoes! I think I would have gone with blue however.
And she looks like a goddess in that draped navy dress.
she always looks polished, elegant and classy. and clean – which is something you don’t see much in hollywood.
Dita goes to different vintage shops to get her clothes and she is a lover of ‘CLoo’ shoes (Christian Louboutin.)In an interview, she said that she adores the retro era. She even has a pink frig in her house! (true story!)
Why change anything when there is nothing wrong? I love her look and her grace.
I have no idea who this woman is but I usually love how she dresses.
I like the casual outfit here and she makes it rock!
I also love that midnight blue-black dress – fantastic!!!
Her skin looks amazing. I love her style and that she sticks to something she loves.
I love the outfit, except for the purse, which seems a bit too fussy for the overall look she’s rocking.
Of course, that’s nitpicking. Dita looks fabulous in that dress, very elegant.
I love her! She is pale and not blotchy, has a wonder figure great sense of style and she seems like a sweet heart. Go Dita!
I LOVE Ms. Von Teese and her amazing style! I wish I could pull off that look (without all the work I’m sure it takes!).
What a classy, beautiful dame! Those green shoes are “da bomb!”
AND, she looks amazing sans makeup as well…
http://www.imnotobsessed.com/2007/03/20/dita-von-teese-without-makeup/
Haha, she’s “classy”.
Yeah, I guess consistently dressing in 1940s attire totally makes up for, oh, making an adult tape of you with a stiletto and banging Marilyn Manson.
I hate Manson, but please, she so used him.
Love her shoes!
Dita is old Hollywood. Style, Grace, gives good face (as Madge so eloquently put it). The style of clothes that she wears would probably be considered ‘dated’ but for her it works. What she wears is very deliberate, and she knows what looks best on her. I wouldn’t expect anything less than perfect. What I like most I think, Dita doesn’t go for big names. I don’t think big name designers could think her style now days.
I dont think she’s like Lady CaCa at all!!This is how hollywood stars SHOULD look like at all times.There paid 10 million+ per movie or make millions on record sales and tours.They could wear something else then sweat pants and t-shirt.
And that goes for the male stars also.
I’m not asking a tux everytime but they could dress better.
Theres plenty of designers out there that would kill to do a whole wardrobe for a star.
Kelly Osbourne wishes.
Oh how i love Dita. She brings it every single day. She is my glamour icon
@ tripmom- I’m not sure about the dress but the shoes are Christian Louboutin
I want that beautiful skin! SO envious!
How does she stay so milkey white??! LOVE HER STYLE!
For an unnattractive girl she makes herself up well. She couldnt get away with natural look because she doesnt have the looks to back it up but she makes herself up well with what she has to work with.
She’s a stripper, plain and simple. Not some big Hollywood star.
Possibly just as bad if not worse:
I wore Thierry Muglier’s “Angel” until my dad’s girlfriend started to! Ew, it’s too Hogan’s to let that happen ever again.
@ Palermo- guess what? Dita would co-sign that statement. She is nothing like the so called Hollywood Stars of today as most of them are disappointing and don’t deserve the title Star.
She calls herself a stripper- she says in her book that if it’s good enough for Gypsy Rose Lee it’s good enough for her.
She isn’t full of herself which is another reason why I, and so many other women, like her.
I love her style, it’s always very complete, no detail overlooked. That dress is charming, and I like the navy gown also.
@VeneficA Delirium – To be fair, Manson also uses his girlfriends. Think about it.
Rose McGowan, actress.
Dita Von Teese, model.
Evan Rachel Wood, actress.
Unless a musician has a famous girlfriend, they are hardly ever talked about in tabloid magazines, or featured in magazines like Vogue (Dita and Manson’s wedding was in Vogue), or even just getting papped.
Thanks to Rose, Dita, and somewhat Evan Rachel Wood, a lot of people know who Marilyn Manson is that normally would never have even heard of him.
Just as his ex girlfriends use him to gain publicity, he as well uses them for his own publicity needs (getting papped with them, using them in interviews, etc)
And I can say this as a former fan of Manson. I stopped liking him after Eat Me, Drink Me was released, because I didn’t really didn’t want to listen to a 38 year old man singing about his 19 year old girlfriend that he cheated on his wife with.
I LOVE her and would love to see her lingerie as well. The vanilla bullshit comment had be giggling. Honestly, I love she does a little glam in her casual wear. I think we all dress way too casual … I long for a bit more of this glam up stuff. Every time I ever seen her on tv she’s come off as very intelligent and vibrant.
Lady Gaga’s outfits wear her. Dita’s outfits are worn by her. I believe she has stated before that she always always wears sunscreen.
Calling Dita just a stripper is such a generalization. Puritan much? Why is it so bad to display sexuality? Her shows are performance and entertainment, not just men getting off and stuffing dollar bills everywhere.
She never leaves the house without looking the best she can, even if it’s casual wear. Apparently she never wears jeans either 🙂 She does look amazing, and that navy gown – WOW!
@Cherry: I agree with you.
I despise Manson not only because he’s a user but also because he’s a tremendous hypocrite. Mr. “The Beautiful People” certainly lives a superficial and neuvo riche lifestyle like the people he bitches about in his song lyrics. He can piss off.
However, I still think that Dita von Teese using him in turn doesn’t seem classy. I tried liking Dita von Teese, but overall she just seems to lack a personality and is remarkably shallow. She’s one-dimensional and dull, and the undeserved admiration she receives for it just because of her fashion sense makes me like her even less.
@Jay: It’s “wrong” because all it does is reinforce unrealistic expectations about sexuality. I’m so sick of this softcore, plastic, fake shit and people consuming that as being “sexually liberated”. I’ll believe “sexual liberation” from any of these twits when they, unlike Dita von Teese, don’t extoll the virtues of being fake and unhealthily obsessed with becoming a caricature of “beauty”.
The other part of my problem with this woman is that she conveys a horrible message to women. Oh wait, we can all be in touch with our sexuality, JUST LIKE DITA, if we all stripped for a living or acted in skin flicks. I guess in order to be “confident” with your sexuality, you must serve no other function in life than being flesh. I do find it a bit disturbing that some women who consider themselves feminists place Dita von Teese on a pedestal, while she openly boasts about starving herself all to conform to an image just to have men stuff dollar bills in her g-string, and spread the message that we women aren’t good enough just the way we are.
If it makes me “Puritanical” because I’m frustrated with people “being in touch with their sexuality” promoting an unrealistic body image as sexual desirability, then that’s just too damned bad.
What people like you don’t realize is that women like Dita von Teese oppress the rest of us peasants because, judging by her comments in interviews, we’re just simply inadequate the way we are. We aren’t good enough for men.
I’m so tired of hearing about what a prude people are just because Dita von Teese sends an extremely negative message about sex. It’s NOT liberating. She’s not degrading herself, but she’s degrading me.
WOW, VeneficA Delirium seems to know large amounts about Dita. I bet you know her. And Dita isn’t a stripper. She’s a burlesque dancer and has made her career and fame being one. Every woman in the world tries to attain some sort of definition of the world ‘beauty’ in their own form. Not just Dita. And I think she is beautiful, classy, gorgeous, talented, brave… and I love Manson too. He’s kind of an idiot and yes he can be totally hypercritical but he is the biggest ACTOR alive. Everything he says, everything he does in the public eye, is an ACT. He is just one big ol’ FAKE. And he makes his living on it… so what? You flip burgers, nobody is bashing you for it….
LOVE this dress and outfit, totally sexy without being all OUT THERE. Love it.
Dita is flawless, as always.
The dress looks good, a little to much spring for heading into fall but otherwise fine!
@Kitty: I flip burgers and I’m in college as a full time student. For you to bring it up in this context does mean that you’re attacking me for it, so sod off. We can’t all be glorified strippers like Dita von Cheese, who you clearly think are more worthy of respect than us filthy laborers. We can’t all be perfect like DVT, afterall!
I know a lot about Dita von Cheese because it’s hard not to if you’re interested in body modification (corsetting) and by reading various soundbites from other sites. Basically, she’s a shit poor role model for young women by implying that they aren’t desirable enough the way they are. While I’m in the process of building a collection of waist training corsets, it’s my prerogative to do so and I would never be tactless enough to encourage everyone else to do it because natural beauty isn’t “good enough”. I also like that you think that you need to dig very deep to realize what a lousy example she sets. All she ever talks about is how she achieves looking like a bobblehead doll. Please let me know how this makes her so virtuous.
She can f*ck herself.
Love her style. She brings it every time!