Stan Guigui, member photographer of VU’ agency covered the women of the Cabaret New Burlesque in their Parisian shows for two months.
“With the Cabaret New Burlesque, I felt like I was covering a Rock group on tour. Adding sequin strings and large breasts… Half princess and half gutter cat, the women of the troop are a mixture of rage and grace, and I found myself plunged right into Hollywood mythology. It was a little as if Fellini and Tarantino’s movies intermingled with those of Tex Avery, without ever trying to imitate them, and all of it in a musical orgy which goes from Groovy to Punk.
In the photos taken at the Théâtre de la Cité and during the Césars 2011, I captured snapshots of life, but I also wanted more posed images, away from the stress of the performances. I wanted to play with these unusual models, do a more intimate session. Fouquet Hotel in Paris loaned us a suite that we transformed into a studio and the session ended with the whole troop half naked, posing in the middle of the Champs-Elysées.”
Stan Guigui
Cabaret New Burlesque, Stan Guigui
Texts: Kitty Hartl, Cabaret New Burlesque; François Cheval, Director of Musée Nicéphore Nièpce
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