Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic

Synopsis

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).

Main Cast

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Self

Age : 72 | Popularity : 3%

Tonie Marshall

Self

Age : 68 | Popularity : 3%

Marion Cotillard

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 100%

Rossy de Palma

Self

Age : 59 | Popularity : 11%

Catherine Deneuve

Self

Age : 80 | Popularity : 34%

Madonna

Self

Age : 65 | Popularity : 10%

Anna Wintour

Self

Age : 74 | Popularity : 5%

Amanda Lear

Self

Age : 85 | Popularity : 8%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Yann L'Hénoret
Camera	Director of Photography	Yann L'Hénoret
Writing	Writer	Yann L'Hénoret
Editing	Editor	Laurent Lefebvre
Department	Role	Name

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