Anita Berber

Anita Berber

I love the style of Anita Berber.  She was very diverse for the era, she was very much pushing the boundaries that in modern times isn't necessarily quite so controversial but back in the 20's/30's would have been considered extreme if not illegal.  I think that's what stand out the most for me, she just didn't care Berber most definitely expressed a lot of herself in her short life addled by drug addiction.  She is definitely a character I will use for inspiration when portraying my final looks.

Anita Berber was Weimar Germany's decadent dancer extraordinaire. Her style if not her lewd inclinations inspired Leni Riefenstahl and Marlena Dietrich to the point of plagiarism: the former launched her acting career as the understudy who filled in for Berber, copying her every move, and the latter, whom Berber dated, borrowed Anita's fashion sense and confident demeanor. Unmatched by her imitators, Berber danced through life, slinking her sable-wrapped-yet-otherwise-nude form across the chessboard tiles of hotel lobby floors. At one point she was everywhere -- in the streets of Berlin with traces of powder on her nostrils and a pet monkey around her neck, on the silver screen playing macabre characters, in newspapers and entertainment reviews, and on stage in wispy costumes, dancing to words by her first husband, the expressionist poet and notorious international con artist, Sebastian Droste:

 . . . Ah-jump over the Shadow
It torments, this Shadow
It devours, this Shadow
What does the Shadow want
Cocaine

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