If you think that free love and freer funbags were a skinvention of the 1960s, then you’ve got another think coming, mister. Sexual liberation has been swinging since the early days of the 20th Century, when Josephine Baker made bananas dance with her topless “banana dance” and Clara Bow bared boobage in the first-ever Oscar winner, Wings (1927). The provocative doc Legendary Sin Cities (2005) chronicles Shanghai’s heyday as a center for skinternational sin, but you don’t have to step into a time machine to experience the intoxicating decadence of the city once called “the Whore of Asia”. You just have to get your ass to Manhattan, where on January 25 Shame co-stars and masters of burlesque Calamity Chang (right) and DeeDee Luxe (left) proudly present Les Fleurs de Shanghai , a new revue that combines bump n’ grind with the exotic romance of Old Shanghai. Find out more about Les Fleurs de Shanghai , including where to RSVP, after the jump!
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Vintage Va-Va-Voom Abounds at Les Fleurs de Shanghai, Starring DeeDee Luxe and Calamity Chang
