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Skinny models were given the 'axe' ahead of Dita Von Teese's debut lingerie launch, it has been revealed.
The 39-year-old designer and burlesque star instead plumped for a team of buxom girls to make the most of her Von Follie range which launched last month.
Proud of her own voluptuous figure, Von Teese has also starred in the underwear campaign promoting key pieces which include sophisticated knickers, stockings, suspenders and bras.
Skinny models were given the 'axe' ahead of Dita Von Teese's debut lingerie launch, it has been revealed
She will also appear on the catwalk this weekend at the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival on behalf of Target Australia, where her brand is currently retailed.
'We gave a lot of models the axe for being too skinny - we probably turned away a dozen,' she told the Herald Sun in Melbourne.
'It's important to me [that] we show curvaceous women and fuller-figured girls... Lingerie looks terrific on girls with shape.'
According to another source, Von Teese also ordered her chosen models to wash off fake tan, and promptly issued a 'no spray tan' policy as she attended rehearsals for the fashion event.
'She was not happy at all,' a source said.
'The models were of course gorgeous but a lot of them were heavily tanned. Not in a 'tandoori' way or anything, just a standard tan, which (Von Teese) stressed was not her look and was not what she wanted to show off the collection.
'You have to remember she is on the runway too, so standing there among among all these bronzed bodies is just not going to work.'
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