Dare to fight for your freedom

Top hat, bowtie, legs for days - when Marlene Dietrich burst onto the scene in the Nazi-condemned blockbuster 'The Blue Angel' (1930) the husky-voiced stunner became an instant icon. A master of selfinvention, Marlene used her roles - from 'Lola Lola' to 'Blonde Venus' and 'Shanghai Lily' - to shape herself into the ultimate Hollywood femme fatale. Marlene's biggest drive? A burning passion for freedom - starting with the freedom to be herself: a crossdressing, cane-swinging, bisexual rebel. In other words, a feminine feminist avant-la-lettre. Fighting both social and sexual repression, Marlene took many lovers -among them, Edith Piaf and Frank Sinatra - and kissed a woman on the lips while wearing a man's tailcoat in the movie 'Morocco'. Not surprisingly, when Marlene was asked in 1937 by the Nazis to star in propaganda films for the Third Reich (allegedly by Hitler himself), she vehemently refused. Two years later, she applied for U.S. citizenship and declared during a British radio broadcast: "Hitler is an idiot."

Fearless, pokerfaced and extremely well-connected, Marlene was a natural-born spy. In 1944, she volunteered to collect intel for the American government while visiting European warzones to sing for 'her boys' (the Allied soldiers). Insisting on traveling right to the frontlines, her colleague artists joked that "Marlene was always trying to get us killed." Anything to fight the Nazis, anything to protect the freedom she held so dear. In 1947, President Truman awarded Marlene with The Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. Sadly, Marlene's FBI file was destroyed in 1980. When she passed away 12 years later, she took her spy secrets with her to the grave. Had Marlene been a (blue) angel in disguise? Nah, she hadmerely done 'the decent thing', the fascist-fighting femme fatale once explained. "I am at heart a gentleman."

Dare to fight for your freedom

Dare to be a glamorous gentlewoman like Marlene Dietrich in my captivating ‘Blue Angel’ lingerie collection. Thinking of the legendary German movie siren and spy in the movie ‘The Blue Angel’, I combined sparkly gold lining (on the shoulder straps and bindings) with a heavenly blue fabric. For an angelic effect, I draped my ultra-flattering design in a fine recycled mesh fabric which I decorated with a sprinkling of gold dots and an elegant flocked pattern. Can you recognize Marlene’s signature bowties and canes? At the heart of the bra is an enamel pendant in the shape of the star’s iconic top hat, while chic blue enamel bowties grace the apex of each cup. Hats off to this stunning look!