In Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world, the juncture where fame and fashion, terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.
The centre of the world: 1990s Manhattan. Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasnβt been and with people he doesnβt know. On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history, heβs living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another. Now itβs time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind.
βDoes for the cold, minimal β90s what American Psycho did for the Wall Street greed of the β80s. You name it, he manages to get it all in.β VOGUE