I had a Bauhaus T-shirt for every day of the week and Bleeker Bob’s only sold five, so I had to make the other two myself. “My favorite band still to this day is Bauhaus. “Back in the ’80s I was that gloom chick,” she explained as her boutique filled up and a DJ spun retro dark-wave faves in the background. Pinup Girl’s Laura Byrnes grew up similarly enamored with music and the dark side. “I was loving the whole punk and new wave scene at the time, and the stuff I wore normally back then was, ya know, safety pins and rock & roll pieces.” Peterson was a bit under the weather on Saturday but she was still her famously funny self, recalling her early days as “sort of a rock groupie,” and later as part of the Groundlings comedy troupe, where she used sexy-girl typecasting to her advantage by meshing sass with sensuality - all of which became part of the Elvira mystique. Laura Byrnes, left, Traci Lords, Cassandra Peterson and Doris Mayday Credit: Jason Levi/Pinup Girl We wanted to make it a little punk, a little metal … and the hair was inspired by Ronnie Spector.” “Elvira started as a kind of ’80s version of Morticia and Vampira. When I was a kid it was like my favorite freakin’ show,” Peterson told me Saturday. The hot looks include a long gown recalling the familiar classic Elvira wore on her TV show, and a few midlength numbers with see-thru mesh necklines that highlight a devilishly daring decolletage, in black and purple, and in a wide range of sizes that have become Pinup’s signature, XS to 4XL. At the line’s debut party Saturday night in Burbank, the first designs from a planned ongoing couture collection were revealed for a packed house full of black-clawed, crimson-lipped gaggles of gal. Her new collaboration with Pinup Girl Clothing (super)naturally celebrates the iconic booby-baring style. As hostess of the internationally syndicated horror TV show Movie Macabre, Peterson took the mysteriousness of her predecessors, added a little bit of comedic sass and sexed up the presentation, adding a bouffant hairdo and form-fitting dress that put her perfect cleavage front and center. It’s part of the reason pop culture icons like Vampira, Morticia and Elvira Mistress of the Dark have bewitched fans for decades.Ĭassandra Peterson, the actress who personifies Elvira, admits that she was definitely channeling the black-swathed beauties that came before her when she created the character back in 1981. And whether you’re in touch with your inner goth girl or not, its power to conjure a dangerous, enchanting or vampy vibe is undeniable. When it comes to looking like an all-out seductress, nothing is sexier than a long black frock with a plunging neckline.
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