Dita Von Teese Says Making Stripping Look Easy Is Hard

Dita Von Teese sat down for an interview and opened on lots of details in her life, including her marriage to Marilyn Manson, her room dedicated entirely to her vintage clothing and more.
On the hardest thing about stripping:

To make it look effortless and natural.

On the best thing about her divorce from Marilyn Manson:

There’s a long list. I am happy to have the drugs out of my life.

On her most prized possession:

I took my engagement diamond and had it transformed at Christian Dior in Paris into a beautiful ring. It’s nice; it’s big. I feel like I suffered greatly for that diamond, and it needed to be reborn into something better.

On her vintage style kitchen:

One of my big extravagances when I moved out of my former husband’s house was a matching pink stove and refrigerator in ’50s style. Unlike real vintage items, they work. Obsolete item she can’t bear to part with: Everything I have is obsolete. That’s the point.

On the extra bedrooms in her house:

I turned one of them into a dark, jewel box of a bedroom. Another is a wardrobe with my dresses, shoes and vintage clothes. The third is devoted to my hat collection and vanity. It’s a real powder room.

On animals in her house:

I have various taxidermied animals. I have a peacock, swans and birds in large glass domes. They’re beautiful.

Aside from the fact that I’m not really into stuffed animals, I would LOVE to see inside Dita’s house.I’m just imagining it to be some kind of huge vintage paradise.I bet it’s gorgeous.For more Q&A with Dita,check out the full article in the New York Times.