‘Paris, London, Tokyo, Osaka, Munich, Lisbon, Porto, Milan, Barcelona, Brisbane’ runs the tagline for Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show in this year’s Brisbane Festival program – an encouragement by Artistic Director Louise Bezzina to urge her fellow Brisbanites to be proud of their Asia Pacific-facing international city.
Part musical review and part fashion parade, Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fashion Freak Show (praised by The Guardian as ‘as much a celebration of bodies and sensuality and sexual freedom as it is a fabulously fun romp through the French designer’s life and career’) distils 50 years of pop culture through the famous fashion designer’s eyes, while also celebrating his colourful life and career.
