Burlesque

The Suicide Girls (link not work-safe) did an in-store at a record shop near where I live in Sydney. I'd not really heard of them until recently and even more recently, their arrival made it into the SMH. Burlesque seems be enjoying a major increase in popularity. A few weeks back the Good Weekend section of the weekend SMH had a story on Dita Von Tease (link not work-safe), which was not very titilating but very interesting, and last year the ABC did a series on young Australia dancers going to the Moulin Rouge. There's also a number of Burlesque, or Girlesque, gigs currently doing the clubs in Sydney... Is this all down to Baz Luhrmann?