It was a dream Minxie thought she must’ve “manifested” when she made herself that promise. The shoot for both articles took place in March over two nine-hour days with a COVID-restricted, all-female crew. The first Playboy spread came out this May, and the other in July. “It was such an honor for me to welcome Minxie to the Playboy family,” Northway says, “her being such an incredible talent but also a truly beautiful and magnetizing spirit.” The shoot for a two-part editorial took place at the Dresden Room, a Hollywood landmark where, Northway says, Minxie “filled the characters as a cabaret performer wearing an authentic vintage showgirl costume and then also adapting the style of 1970s Hollywood glamour. I recall seeing a black-and-white shot from one of her performances, and I could have sworn it was a photograph straight from the 1940s.” “She has such a timeless look and spirit. “Scanning through videos of her performances, I was captivated by the way she moves so elegantly, commanding attention but doing so with such softness and ease,” Northway says. You have to kind of be ready to not be approved of." – Minxie Mimieux tweet this The call came this year - or rather, an Instagram message - from Playboy photographer Madeline Northway, who was looking for a Texas cowgirl type for an upcoming shoot in Los Angeles when she found a muse in the burlesque star from Dallas. “I would say it takes dedication, passion and - ultimately, like with any type of performer - a willingness for scrutiny. Minxie promised herself long ago that she would never do full nudity unless she got a call from Playboy, and she kept her word. Through a decade of tassel-twirling performances, there are some things, however, the dancer reserved from audiences. Since the days of Ruby’s club, Dallas has maintained a strong taste for burlesque, giving performers like Minxie an ever-shining spotlight. There’s something particularly satisfying about watching a woman command an audience by using her sexuality to her favor. Her magnetism gains power through burlesque’s artistry and her accomplished styling, costuming and choreography. Most of her loyal following, she says, is made up of women, which isn’t as surprising at it might seem. Minxie surely doesn’t mind this sort of response. Minxie’s red-hot act whips the crowd into butter with every feather-soft move, but no one is enjoying the show more than a woman to the left of the stage, whose enthusiastically loud offstage remarks border on catcalling. The raven-locked beauty splashes around the glass, becoming the orange in a luscious mimosa she shimmers, winks and flirts while soaking herself in bubbles and spinning around the rim of the glass. She closes the show by climbing into a giant Champagne coupe, though the prop is hardly noticeable when it’s next to her bouncing presence. Headliner Minxie Mimieux is the mastermind behind this timeless fantasy. The venue’s new monthly series is called Carousel Club Burlesque and is inspired by the old Dallas troupe from the Carousel Club, once owned by Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald. They all shared one thing, however: The vixens onstage had an eerily authentic air recalling burlesque’s heyday. One by one, burlesque dancers took their places under the spotlight, teasing the audience in an open-room peepshow, appealing to the strokes of all folks with the dancers’ varied sizes, ages and looks. On the last Saturday of July, an entranced crowd circled the stage at the Cambridge Room at Dallas’ House of Blues.
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