‘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.
‘One hundred and 50 million percent, that is exactly my reasoning,’ Bezzina tells ArtsHub a few days out from this year’s Festival program launch, when asked about the show’s promotional tagline.
