Bettie Page Blog
Sell the Junk… Save the Children
It’s TAP WEEK, when UNICEF tries to focus our attention on that stuff you mix with Scotch… well, it doesn’t come outt a tap for everyone. (For the record, Bettie never drank, so please don’t mix your water with Scotch… but we won’t tell if you do ~ ed.) I know some folks think the [...]
Dienzo Honors Bettie Page
Sadly, we missed this show, but in early February, Hyaena, an “outsider” art gallery in Burbank, CA, hosted a Bettie Page Tribute group show. We loved what they had to say in the program for the show: Bettie Page, the Queen of Pin-Ups passed away late last year, leaving millions of fans to mourn the [...]
Dita By Downton
David Downton is a world-renowned fashion illustrator known for his portraits of model Erin O’Connor and burlesque performer Dita Von Teese (www.daviddownton.com). Downton is also the founder and publisher of Pourquoi Pas? A Journal of Fashion Illustration (www.pqpmagazine.com). His recent work was included in Victoria and Albert Museum exhibitions and their 150th Anniversary album; on [...]
Fur Flying over Dita’s INKED Cover
From ENTERTAINMENTWISE: Dita Von Teese Strips Down To Fox FurThe PETA campaigner contradicts herself by wearing animal skin… Animal lover Dita Von Teese has stripped down for a sexy shoot – wearing fox fur. The burlesque star – who appears in PETA’s Animal Birth Control campaign – strikes a seductive topless pose on the cover [...]
Dita Approved Retro-Inspired Fashion
Lulu Guinness, designer worn by Dita, interviewed.
Women Drivers
In the film, HEART LIKE A WHEEL, audiences saw what “women drivers” could really do — win races and take trophies away from the “good ol’ boys”! Now, HOT ROD MAGAZINE lets the Queen Of Drag Racing, Shirley Muldowney, speak for herself!
Retro Reads and More
Burlesque artist Immodesty Blaize has written a novel set in the world of burlesque, entitled TEASE. Evidently, such a glamorous performer isn’t the norm at gatherings of literary types, as her upcoming reading and striptease at Hay-on-Wye has tongues wagging. FILM THREAT reviews the indie movie HOT ROD GIRLS SAVE THE WORLD.
Pin-Up Pulse
The NAKED FOLK CALENDAR (pictured above) helps pay for the health care of uninsured or underinsured folk musicians. The GLAM BLOG has pictures of a great Brazilian retro-pin-up calendar, Contigo! In the early 50’s famed artist George Petty drew and airbrushed the pin-up girls for Ridgid Tools popular calendars… PLANETZMAN has a gallery (the overall [...]
Women in Horror
While horror gets lots of mainstream attention for celebrating sexualized violence towards women, a new documentary, PRETTY BLOODY shows that women have been a powerful force in the industry at every level. CLICK to see an interview with Jovanka Vuckovic (of Rue Morgue) discussing the doc and women in horror in general. Supposedly, it spends [...]
High Fashion *hearts* Bettie Page
ANDRÉS SARDÁ CIBELES MADRID FASHION WEEK 2009 And a DEAR ABBY reader wants everyone to wear panties like Bettie Page… just like his sisters used to… um, ew!
Burlesque Beat
The Rape Crisis & Sexual Abuse Centre, which provides counselling and support to the survivors of sex attacks, has come under fire for using a near-naked dancer (burlesque performer Amber Topaz, pictured above ~ ed.) as part of its line up for a fundraising concert to mark International Women’s Day. READ THE REST and read [...]
Tattoosday: Gavin Highnight
Talk about standing behind your work! Gavin Hignight, the creator and writer of the superantural/rockabilly graphic novel MOTOR CITY now sports a fresh tattoo of the book’s comely character, “SAM”… in a Bettie Page-inspired pin-up originally drawn by the book’s illustrator, Jetilla Lewis. Gavin tells us, “I got that Tattoo from Hanah Aitchison, on the [...]
Burlesque’s History Considered
A thoughtful post on the meaning of burlesque. Worth the READ. (Sammy Snapshot’s Thoughts & Images blog)
Rose Maddox
Popmatters has a great post on Rose Maddox and The Maddox Brothers. CHECK IT OUT
Pin-Up Worthy Hair
Superman Meets Bettie Page
In the new book, SECRET IDENTITY: THE FETISH ART OF SUPERMAN’S CO-CREATOR JOE SHUSTER, the characters in these twisted drawings, tied up, spanked and worse, look almost exactly like Lois, Superman, Jimmy Olsen and Luthor. They’re not, of course (something else Yoe points out — probably for legal reasons), but NIGHTS OF HORROR gives an [...]
Dita Sings!
Dita Von Teese signed a record contract with Interscope Europe and is working on an album, according to E! Online in late February, but we just noticed this morning! FULL STORY
Red Lips
Whether it’s music, shoes or, in this case, lipstick, it’s funny how if you have a style you love, within a few years you will go from “hopelessly lame” to “cutting edge” — without having actually made any changes! So, for those who love bold, primary-color red-red lipstick… congrats! You’ve once again been deemed “in [...]
Trophy Queens
“Trophy queens represent an important part of American racing lore. They injected a shot of glamour to the tough sport of racing,” according to an NHRA (National Hot Rod Association, if you’re unfamiliar) official. Amidst the grease and the steel, The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, located at Fairplex Gate 1, 1101 W. McKinley Avenue [...]
Tim Gunn Outs Kenley as a Lunatic
From THE BEST WEEK EVER: By now, you are all well aware of the scandal that has befallen former Project Runway contestant Kenley Collins. No, not the dress copying one – though good thinking — rather how Ms. Collins was jailed for throwing a cat at her (ex?)-boyfriend. Some of you (read: none of you) [...]
Punk Goes Country
They say that country is a genre that allows a musician to grow old with grace. The fans stay loyal and the road never ends. Maybe that’s why so many punks start to twang it up when they start seeing the north side of 40. It’s only right, as punk appropriated the direct, down-to-earthy lyrics [...]
Burlesque Beat
Dita vs. The Pussycat Dolls: “It drives me crazy when the media or groups like the Pussycat Dolls try to sanitize and take away the sexual and nudity aspects of burlesque.” She added: “I’m sorry, but if you’re not up there taking your clothes off and dancing around in pasties and a G-string, it’s not [...]
Not a Good Reason for Bettie Page to be Mentioned in the Papers
Project Runway’s Kenley Collins in Jail for Attacking Fiance with Pussycat > Posted by Rod Hagwood at 4:58:04 PM on SunSentinel.com She’s not just a hellcat. She’s hell on cats. Kenley Collins – the serial-rude contestant from season five of Project Runway – spent St. Patrick’s Day caged behind bars after being arrested for attacking [...]
Better Reason for Bettie’s Name to be in Print
…Talking about Women’s History Month over the last 10 days, I asked people who their female role models in history are, and I got a wide array of answers — from Joan of Arc to Susan B. Anthony to Bettie Page. While mothers and grandmothers took the No. 1 place of role models in general, [...]
Hawleywood’s Barber Shop & Shave Parlor
This Costa Mesa CA icon does barberin’ right. Read about ‘em here and be glad y’ did: It’s the rare moment when a can of Pabst and a straight razor really should comingle. But peek through the window of Hawleywood’s Barber Shop in Costa Mesa, and you’ll see old-school beers and old-school razors forming a [...]
