Vanity Styles Bouncing Beyond the Valley of the Supervixens; Takes a Tip From Russ Meyer Style and Nip From Kitten Natividad

For years Vanity Styles endured and enjoyed comparisons to Kitten Natividad, a voluptuous Supervixen from Russ Meyer's cinematic world. Styles moved to Florida when she was 18 to become an adult entertainer after studying ballet, modern and burlesque dance. She is making her directorial debut, an homage to the over-the-top director and a nod and a wink to the top-heavy star of Beneath the Valley of the Dolls, who passes the mighty mammarian mantle on to Styles by playing her mother. Styles is channeling the 70's in the film, which is shooting now, called Desperate Fate. She wrote the screenplay "with the help of Clark Brooks. We are also working on a bio of me called Happy Endings."

"I had a lot of people tell me that I remind them of Tura Santana or a Russ Meyers girl. That was when I became interested and started doing my research. I looked her up and started watching movies and saw the similarities," she says enthusiastically. Styles had a friend who was acquainted with Kitty Natavidad. "He told her about my film and what we were doing and we had everything in common. She did magazines for big-breasted women. Everything about her was like me in a different timeline. My friend asked her to be in the movie playing my mother, she said she excited about it and that's how it came together." Vanity hasn't worked with Natividad yet "I haven't had the opportunity to do so just yet. We just started filming Desperate Fate a month ago and I am so thankful and grateful that Miss Kitten Natividad will be making an appearance playing my mother. We have so much in common and she is definitely an inspiration."

Vanity had been making adult films and horror shorts often finding herself happily typecast in "vampire pimpette" roles. "I do have a hint of a dark side to me and definitely love playing Femme Fatale Vampiric roles," she exclaims. Style made move from acting to directing because "I have a unique sense of taste and style. I know what looks good and I like testing my limits." She learned most of what she knew about directing while acting on sets. She says she is a bit of a control freak and decided to take control of the process using the resources she had at her disposal. "I'm very fortunate because I have a lot of people who love me. I figured out who I needed and what I needed. I called people for the project and told them what I was doing. They loved it so much they said they'd help me in any way possible. With the music, with the video." Styles, a drummer herself, knew that this kind of movie needed just the right soundtrack to back up her visuals. "I had music that I wanted, but because of copyrights, I have friends who came up with seventies style music."

Directing and starring in her own film gave Styles the opportunity to live out a dark fantasy. "I always had a fascination about robbing a bank. When I see a bank truck roll by and I see the guy in truck winking at me. I get this surge of excitement in my mind tearing into that says 'rob him.' So in the film I have a film where I will be robbing a bank." Styles sometimes invokes her background as a dominatrix when making the film. "I'm good at giving direction and telling people what to do," she says. "I've done short Vampire clips and doing domination and a lot of role play helped a lot with acting skills."

Before acting "I was doing more modeling and dancing and the cabaret show." Styles did latex and fetish modeling and was on the cover of Aqua Vulva, "a sex toy magazine" and modeled for different biker magazines, "My stepfather had a Harley and I always loved Harleys." She worked in clubs like Mons Venus and Thee Dollhouse and was the winner of the "Beauty in the Dark" contest and went on to appear in music videos and TV shows like Ricki Lake and Jenny Jones shows, just like Kitty Natavidad had made appearances on The $1.98 Beauty Show and The Dating Game. Vanity, who speaks fluent Spanish, recently won the Miss Tampa Bay Latina Pageant.  

Vanity Styles owns and runs the Femme Dulce Cabaret, which she choreographs and controls the music line up. "I went to Las Vegas and went to the Pussycat Doll Club and thought there was nothing like this in Tampa. I love dancing and I love performing so I thought I'd put something together. I didn't want it to look like just a pack of strippers, I wanted them all to have something unique, a talent, so I had a fire girl, an aerial performer and a Bettie page impersonator who had the rights from Bettie Page to be an impersonator. I had a singer also. The first troupe had blonde, brunette and redheaded performers who went on to other successful performance careers. "One joined an erotic circus, things like that. So I decided for my next troupe I'd have all brunettes. I think brunettes are very sexy and exotic. They bring something extra."

Vanity is a girl with something extra herself. Besides the obvious attributes, she has a touch of magic. "Ever since I was a little girl I had a feeling there was something different about me. I can sense some things about a person's past. I have a lot of premonition and do believe that I was put at certain places at certain times for a certain reason. My late mother had the same gift. She had called me one night and said she had a dream I was in a car accident and died and ironically a week later it was her that got into a car accident and passed away."

Vanity Styles She is already planning her next films, which will be "Go-Go or domination" before she tackles her true celluloid calling. "I love horror. It's just my favorite." She plans to highlight strong, fierce femme fatales. "I love dominant women who know what they want. I think there's something sexy about them."