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Jean Paul Gaultier: Freak & Chic

6.4(5)20181h 36m5

Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. "But what story can I tell?" he muses in this doc about the six months of preparation that went into the show. "Mine." Combining fashion with film, dance, theater, and unapologetic over-the-top-ness, the revue offers a 40-year career retrospective of the designer who is practically never spoken of without using the phrase enfant terrible. Notorious among cinephiles for his costumes for The Fifth Element and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and among pop fans for Madonna's pointy cone brassiere, he also incorporated teddy bears and S&M fetish gear as design motifs. In the show, the fanciful and outrageous meets the naughtily witty (a skit sending up Vogue dragon lady Anna Wintour) and the poignant (a tribute to his partner Francis Menuge, who died in 1990).

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French
  • fashion
  • haute couture
  • mode

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSeattle International Film Festival17 May 2019
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical (limited)U19 Dec 2018
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical6 Feb 2020
  • Hong KongHK

    • PremiereMOViE MOViE Life is Art4 Sept 2019
    • Theatrical8 Sept 2019
  • RussiaRU

    • Theatrical18+13 Feb 2020

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Jean Paul Gaultier: Freak & Chic was released on 19 December 2018.

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