Fashion freak show trailer

As an impressionable little boy, Jean Paul Gaultier watched a flickering black-and-white television transmission of a show from Paris’s legendary music hall the Folies Bergere. The production’s scantily clad lovelies in their glittering if vestigial costumes and towering feather headdresses cast a spell: From then on it was his dream to be a part of this magical world of rhinestones and razzmatazz.

Gaultier had already proved that he was no ordinary little boy.

He spent his school lessons sketching fanciful showgirl costumes and was so transfixed by his beloved grandmother’s elaborate corsetry that he constructed a conical bra for his teddy bear, Nana: His first fashion creation.

Nana makes a cameo appearance in the opening number of Fashion Freak Show, the realization of Gaultier’s childhood dream that sets his life to Hi NRG music—arranged by the legendary Nile Rodgers—and dance, choreographed by Marion Motin, in a whimsical production at those fabled Folies.

Founded in 1869 in the last gasp of the decadent Second Empire, the theater was subsequently made over in a high-