PS: One thing I think has been great over the past five years is there's been this greater acceptance of beauty and burlesque in modern feminism. Is that a change that you've also sensed?
DVT: When I first started creating burlesque shows and posing for pinups in the early '90s, I had a very distinctive audience. It was a lot of older men who remembered sneaking into burlesque theaters when they were little boys, and knew who Gypsy Rose was, or knew who Betty Page was — before she became popular. I watched my fan base go from men, and then fetish fans, to being this whole shift to a very unique, modern feminist movement. Other girls were getting inspired by the idea of creating your own myth, cultivating your own glamour. And being fascinating doesn't depend on what you're born with — it's what you make. Glamour is not about how young you are, or how rich you are, how pretty you are, what size you are, what ethnicity you are. Everyone can become glamorous if they choose to, put the time into it, and devote part of their selves to it.
