Trevor's next risqué tease

He was the man behind the controversial Hello Boys adverts for Wonderbra and the FCUK slogan for French Connection.

His advertising agency sparked outrage when posters for the Labour Party showed Michael Howard's head grafted on a pig's body, while another depicted the Conservative leader in a black cloak and swinging a watch chain.

Now Trevor Beattie is set to court controversy again by producing the West End's first burlesque show.

Opening at the Arts Theatre next month, Immodesty Blaize and Walter's Burlesque will be closed to under-15s and claims to feature "domination and gratification at its raunchiest best".

Beattie, head of advertising firm TBWA, said: "I've seen the future and she's wearing contra-rotating nipple tassels. This will be a night out like they used to have.

"It's sexy, intelligent, funny, camp, energetic, satirical, risqué, androgynous, exuberant and at least seven other camiknicker-clad adjectives."

The production will feature five showgirls, a pianist and - for undisclosed reasons - an eight-foot-high rocking horse.

Star of the show is stripteasing burlesque artiste Immodesty Blaize, who said: "The show is not sleazy but groundbreaking. The West End has never seen anything like this."

Burlesque is an erotic cabaret and was a common element of Victorian music hall revues.

It became enormously popular in the US, when theatre owners introduced it in an attempt to keep audiences out of the newly popular cinemas.

Recently burlesque has enjoyed a renaissance thanks to performers like Miss Blaize and Dita Von Teese, girlfriend of rocker Marilyn Manson. Kylie Minogue's current tour Showgirls features elaborate burlesque-inspired corsets.