YOUR BEAUTY
MARK
The Ultimate
Guide to Eccentric Glamour
By Dita Von
Teese
With Rose
Apodaca
On-Sale
December 1, 2015
For international style icon and
“burlesque superheroine” (Vanity Fair) Dita Von Teese, the transformative
powers of makeup, hairspray, perfume and even a good bubble bath are
instrumental in creating one’s individual glamour and making an indelible beauty
mark in this world. Now, for the first time in her Technicolor career, Dita
divulges a lifetime of beauty insight—which she continues to practice daily and
without a glam squad.
There is great empowerment in
being able to do it yourself, encourages Dita. She is proof. From worldwide
stages to fashion runways, magazine covers to online videos, Dita has pulled off
more strokes of red lipstick, bursts of hair spray, boxes of blue-black hair dye
and pats of powder in a month than a drag queen could dream of in a lifetime.
Whether she’s dazzling audiences while swirling in a towering martini glass in
Swarovski-covered pasties, or sparking camera flashes on the red carpet, one
reality is constant: for this self-styled star, beauty is an art. It’s what
keeps her on international best-dressed lists and on high-profile fashion show
rosters, and it is lavishly demonstrated in this 400-page illustration and
photography-filled coffee table book.
In Your Beauty Mark: The
Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour (Dey Street Books; December 1, 2015;
$45.00), Dita and collaborator Rose Apodaca take you through every step of
Dita’s glamour arsenal, from sound nutrition and exercise guidance, skincare and
scent insight, as well as accessible techniques for creating bombshell
hairstyles and makeup looks. There is the authoritative advice of her
confidantes—masters in makeup, hair, medicine, and exercise, as well as some of
the world’s most eccentric beauties. This inspiring resource shares the skills,
history, and lessons you need to enhance your individual gifts and realize your
own beauty mark, with original illustrations by Adele Mildred and instructive
step-by-steps, along with hundreds of glamour portraits by more than 80
acclaimed photographers, such as Ellen Von Unwerth, Peter Lindbergh, Ruven
Afanador, Paola Kudacki, Ali Mahdavi and Albert Sanchez.
As Dita says, “This book is for
those who enjoy breaking the beauty rules and changing them, and I hope it
inspires them to not be ashamed to say they like something the way they like
it.” Look beyond the mainstream perceptions of beauty, she urges, and celebrate
eccentricity and individuality. That is making your beauty
mark.
About the Authors:
Dita Von
Teese is the brightest star in burlesque since Gypsy Rose Lee and an influential
tastemaker celebrated internationally. As style icon and muse to artists,
designers and photographers, she has appeared on magazine covers and European
runways for Jean Paul Gaultier, Moschino and Giambattista Valli, and is the
performer of choice for Marc Jacobs, Christian Louboutin and Louis Vuitton. Her
DIY beauty ethos and entrepreneurial ventures—designing award-winning
perfumes, lingerie, gloves, and clothes, and as directing producer on her
touring stage extravaganzas—have established her as a role model to women. She
is the author of the global bestseller Burlesque and the Art of the
Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese and Dita: Stripteese. Dita and
her illustrious feline Aleister live just under the gaze of the star-viewing
Griffith Observatory.
Rose
Apodaca is a style and culture journalist and design and exhibition curator and
retailer. Her work has appeared in Harper’s
Bazaar, Industrie, W, Elle, Los Angeles
Times, and WWD, where she served as West Coast bureau chief from
2000-2005; and her books include the New York Times bestseller Style A
to Zoe: The Art of Fashion, Beauty & Everything Glamour with super
stylist Rachel Zoe and Fred Hayman–The Extraordinary Difference: The Story of
Rodeo Drive, Hollywood Glamour and the Showman Who Sold it All. She and her
husband, Andy Griffith, live with their daughter, Nina, in east Los
Angeles.
About the Book:
Your Beauty Mark: The Ultimate
Guide to Eccentric Glamour
By Dita Von Teese with Rose
Apodaca
Dey Street Books, an imprint of
William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers
On-Sale: December 1,
2015
Hardcover ISBN: 9780060722715
($45.00)
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