Seattle’s Old School Pinups specializes in making all women look and feel beautiful through PinUp, Boudoir, Retro & Intimate photography. We took our 30+ years experience in commercial photography and designed our dream studio that exceeds conventional boudoir. We provide eclectic sets,(the Bachelor Pad,Oriental Bar,Tiki Room and of course Boudoir), a complete makeover by Trixie Lane in her Silver Star PinUp Salon & Wardrobe Room, including hair make up & wardrobe. Add to that our mid century style photography, we've created a wonderland experience in intimate photography producing images that are instant classics, to be treasured forever, never going out of style. OldSchoolPinUps the BEST in Seattle PinUp , Boudoir , Retro and Intimate Style photography.

When you come to OldSchoolPinUps, not only do you get a complete professional retro makeover by Burlesque Legend Trixie Lane, and access to our period accurate sets, you also get the confidence of knowing your photographer, Lance Wagner, has photographed people like Olivia Newton John, Sarah Jessica Parker, Christain Slater, Alex Borstein, Bill Gates, Dana Delaney, Andy Dick, Seth MacFarland,George Takei, Morgan Fairchild, Carol Doda, Flip Wilson, Coretta Scott King, Evelyn Lauder, Edgar Martinez and for clients such as Nordstroms, 20th Century Fox, Home Depot, Donna Karan, Estee Lauder, Directors Guild of America, The Limited, American Honda, Glamour Magazine, MSNBC, Microsoft, W Magazine, The Today Show, Alpine Electronics, Seattle Magazine and many more.

After earning a Bachelors Degree in photography from Cal State University Fullerton, Lance assisted many of the top photographers from Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Tokyo. In that time, Lance was fortunate to learn his craft and lighting, working on shoots for National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Neiman Marcus, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, FOX, MCA ,Sony, GQ, Esquire, ABC, NBC,CBS, Disney and more. The same person that will be lighting you put lights on people like, President Ronald Reagan, Pee Wee Herman, John Travolta, David Bowie, Billy Wilder, Walter Mathau, Bette Midler, Jeff Bridges, Patrick Swayze, Bruce Willis, Rosanne Barr, Cuba Gooding Junior, Meatloaf, Shirley Jones, Soundgarden, MegaDeath, Jennifer Tilly, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Jason Bateman, Michael Jackson, George Wendt, John Cleese, Ed Asner, Hank Aaron and many more.

Make sure you are getting quality photography, ask what your potential photographer's background and experience includes.

When you add up all you are getting from Lance Wagner and Trixie Lane's OldSchoolPinUps we know you will agree,

There's No Place Like OldSchoolPinUps

To find out more about OldschoolPinUps please read the following articles featuring OldSchoolPinUps.

The first article is a feature about OldSchoolPinUps by Seattle Times writer, Rebecca Garland. The following piece is an interview with OldSchoolPinUps owners Trixie and Lance conducted by Seattle Bride Magazine's Jenny Flack.

For more press about OldschoolPinUps and client testimonials, please visit our Testimonials Page.

Always wanted to be a pinup girl? Say cheese at

Old School Pin Ups

By Rebecca Garland

February 19, 2010

Special to NWsource

Take former Hollywood professional photographer Lance Wagner and makeup artist, stylist and burlesque teacher Trixie Lane and what do you get?  Old School Pin Ups -- a self-professed "retrophile" husband-and-wife team who bring out women's beauty through '40s-, '50s- and '60s-era pinup photography while fostering their love for midcentury life and style.

Lance and Trixie opened Old School Pin Ups in Seattle in 2006, and since then they've brought out the pinup girl in hundreds of Seattle-area women (as well as celebrities like Alex Borstein, the voice of Lois and other characters on TV's "Family Guy"). A majority of Old School Pin Ups' business consists of wedding gifts from the bride to the groom, as well as Valentine's Day and Christmas gifts. Old School Pin Ups also caters to many military wives, and Trixie notes that their pinup books and calendars are in Iraq, Afghanistan and even on a nuclear submarine.  No matter the reason, "It's a win-win gift," Lance said. "You get three hours of being pampered, and your significant other gets great photos."

Once you arrive at the Old School Pin Ups studio, Lance and Trixie give you a tour, which includes four sets -- the Bachelor Pad, the Oriental Bar, the Tiki Bar and the Boudoir -- all decorated in vintage furniture and accessories to match each set's particular style.  You'll then spend two hours with Trixie in hair, makeup and wardrobe. She can accommodate all shapes and sizes -- her style arsenal contains lingerie, corsets and bathing suits from a size two to a 22 -- and she will discuss with you any problems areas you want to conceal. With imperfections that can't be hidden by wardrobe, Lance says there are a few options, including lighting and certain poses, as well as editing touch-ups.

The shoot lasts approximately one hour. Never modeled before? Lance and Trixie make you feel at ease by talking you through the shoot, which progresses through 8 to 13 different poses with different angles and lighting. After the shoot is over, you "slip into something less comfortable," Trixie says, while Lance performs a quick edit and projects a slideshow of the shoot. Though you will schedule a time to come back to meet after Lance has performed a more thorough edit, you don't walk away empty-handed that day. You will leave with two small "peek-a-boo" viewfinders, with one of the pictures from the shoot visible inside.

The beautiful and period-accurate pictures that Old School Pin Ups produces are a testament to their passion for the work. Lance says, "It's the most fun to let someone see how beautiful they can be." Trixie agrees. "To see her eyes light up when she sees herself, and you know the person who loves her sees her just like that... It's the biggest thrill of my life."

Gain Confidence and Surprise Your Sweetie With

Old School Pin Up Photography

By Jenny Flack

Seattle Bride Magazine

12/09/2009

Old School Pin Ups, a vintage-style pin-up photography and makeover studio in Lake City, specializes in creating "old school"

looks and photographs for brides-to-be and their wedding party. Founded by photographer Lance Wagner and hair, makeup and

wardrobe stylist Trixie Lane, this retro-fashioned husband-and-wife team fit right in among the various sets in their 1950’s-themed

photography studio. Whether you want to floor your fiancé and pose as Jungle Jane in the palm-tree decorated Tiki Room or put

on your bedroom eyes and lingerie in the Boudoir, Lance and Trixie provide a new twist on bridal photography. Here, they explain why

being a pin-up model is such a fun thing to do for your man—and yourself.

Seattle Bride: What does a typical day at Old School Pin Ups look like?

Lance: It’s very Madmen, except a lot more politically correct and fun! Our most popular service is pin-up photography, where we shoot

brides in a variety of sexy costumes and settings in our studio. Then the photographs are made into gorgeous prints, books, calendars

and even playing cards. Brides can give them as gifts to their fiancé as a little teaser before the wedding. Military wives will often send

calendars or books to their husbands overseas. We also take retro-style engagement and wedding portraits of couples. We’ll

dress the bride in a 50’s house dress and the groom in a Rat Pack suit or smoking jacket, so the men have fun, too. The couples want

to emulate that classic style of their grandparents’ era.

SB: Your studio always looks primed for a party! Do you host parties here, too?

Trixie: We open our studio to bachelorette parties, where the bride and her girlfriends can all get dolled up and photographed as pin-ups.

I also do wedding-day hair and makeup from our studio, so we can use the bachelorette-party photo shoot as a trial run for how brides

want their hair and makeup on the big day. I teach every bride a basic bump-and-grind burlesque routine to perform for their new

husbands on their wedding night to set the mood for their honeymoon, and I always send them home with a handmade hair

flower of my own design. Brides can even enroll in my Kindergarten of Burlesque, a five-week course that teaches women how to

develop their inner starlet and ends with each student performing her own burlesque skit in front of a live audience! The students

design their own glittery costumes and invent sassy character names like “Dirty Mississippi” and “Violette Von Shpankitt.” It’s a

blast, and so rewarding.

SB: Why do brides want to pose as pin-up models?

Trixie: Of course brides want to give that special, spicy gift to their fiancés, but posing also gives them a more empowered sense of

self. The most important thing a woman can do is learn to stand on her own two feet, but sometimes being a breadwinner, a

mother and so many other roles doesn’t leave space for expressing femininity. I know burlesque performers who are lawyers and even

marines, so you can be badass and beautiful. It’s so thrilling to help brides feel confident before their weddings. Once, a bride scheduled

a shoot and contacted us three weeks before her wedding to tell us her fiancé had just died in an accident. She was devastated, but six

months later she came in with her girlfriends for the bachelorette party she never had. She wanted those photos to lift her spirits and

as a way to lay her fiancé to rest.

SB: How did you two combine forces in the name of pin-up photography?

Trixie: I was torch singing at a retro lounge in New York and Lance, who was scheduled to do a shoot for a business in the city,

contacted me about my performance. We corresponded constantly for the next few months until I decided to meet him in Seattle.

I planned on staying for two weeks and never left! While searching for venues to perform in, I fell into the nouveau

burlesque movement that was happening at the time. Lance began photographing our burlesque performer friends while I styled their

hair and makeup. We did the shoots in rented photography studios and one corner of our tiny apartment that we’d converted to a

vintage set.

Lance: I knew other couples who worked together and fought all the time, so I was hesitant to start a business with Trixie. But she

believed we could do it and eventually I saw things her way. In 2005 we were accepted into Artwood Studios, an artists’ collective

housed in the former Cedar Park Elementary school, and set up our studio in the kindergarten room.

SB: What is the difference between what you offer—posing as a pin-up or burlesque girl—versus a Playboy centerfold type of photo.

Trixie: A Playboy centerfold focuses on in-your-face eroticism that is designed just to titillate. A pin-up photograph focuses on the tease.

It might display a woman looking surprised because the wind blew her skirt up, exposing her stockings and garter. The sexuality is

incidental. A burlesque performer never exhibits full nudity; you might only glimpse her pastie-covered breast for a few seconds

as she dances behind feather fans. Plus, the performances can include choreographed dances, skits, props and lavish costumes.

They can be dramatic, playful, satirical or funny. The burlesque performances you see in Seattle today are run by women and

performed by women confident and powerful in their own skin, and audiences are full of both men and women. When a bride

poses at our studio, she’s becoming much more than just another busty bikini babe.

SB: How do you get brides comfortable with the idea of being scantily clad and photographed?

Trixie: From the moment brides come through our door we try to make our studio a safe, inviting and fun place. We begin in my

private dressing room where I get to know the bride. What is she most comfortable showing off? Does her fiancé love her long neck

or curvy hips? By the time I’m done styling her hair and makeup and have dressed her in a fabulous corset or lacy teddy that shows her

body to its best advantage, she’s excited and eager to step onto the set. Then Lance guides the bride through the entire process with

directions as specific as “lift your chin” in a patient, gentle way. He respects the bride’s space and conveys himself as the artist behind

the camera. If so much as a bra strap gets twisted he calls me in to assist.

Lance: We start with simple poses to build the bride’s confidence, like having her lean against the edge of the bed in the boudoir set

with her legs crossed—very demure but sensual. As she gets more comfortable we progress to more complicated shots. If she needs

encouragement, we’ll upload one shot to the computer for her to see, and she’s usually so blown away by how great she looks that

it gives her the boost she needs.

SB: Do women have to bring their own costumes and lingerie to the shoot? Where do the clothes come from?

Trixie: Our clients are largely regular working women who may own some lingerie, but most borrow vintage undergarments and

pin-up outfits from my collection. I’ve collected vintage clothing since the 1980’s—I have hundreds of pieces!— and I rely on

reproduction corsets and shapewear by Lady Marlene, Rago and Wenatchee-based Orchard Corset. Incidentally, any of these

shapers would work wonders beneath a wedding dress.

SB: How do you help brides decide what to wear and which setting they’d like to be photographed in?

Trixie: Women sometimes look at our Web site and have a good idea of what they’d like to do and other times they let us take the

reins. One bride talked to her long-distance fiancé on the phone habitually and wanted a photo of her talking on our retro rotary phone.

Another bride had received a scarf from her fiancé so we incorporated that into the shoot. If you’ve got special jewelry or

lingerie that your sweetie loves, bring it!

Lance: Each of our sets lends itself to different costumes and “looks.” So if you want to wear lingerie or a nightgown, the Boudoir is a

good choice, and the Tiki Room is perfect for bathing suits, hula skirts and animal prints because of its exotic bamboo décor.

SB: How do men react to the receiving such luscious gifts?

Trixie: They’re completely floored! Some brides will surprise their fiancés with the prints 10 minutes before their ceremony and the

men want to consummate the marriage right then and there! They get emotional, too. A 60-year-old woman posed, and her husband

cried and told her she was as beautiful as the day they first met. The gifts are especially meaningful for military men; it really keeps

them going.

SB: What’s the most important advice you’d give couples looking for a wedding photographer?

Lance: Look at as much of the photographer’s works as possible and pay attention to the quality. Ask yourself: If I could see myself

in this photograph, would I be happy with it? Find a photographer’s work that chokes you up emotionally because it’s so beautiful.

Check online testimonials and the photographer’s Web site; a sleek, professional page with plenty of weddings signals a

photographer is devoted fulltime to his or her work. Experience is key.

SB: What’s your favorite part about shooting pin-up photography?

Lance: Seeing these real, everyday women squeal in delight at their pin-up photos gives us the biggest rush! Fifteen minutes after they

leave, glowing with confidence, Trixie and I shake a martini and thank our luck that we get to do what we do.

Trixie: And we’re even luckier because we get to do what we love with the one we love most.