Drie vriendinnen willen het in de Parijse glamourwereld maken. Hope heeft een geschonden gezicht maar droomt er toch van topmodel te worden. Faith aast op een carrière als zangeres en deinst er niet voor terug vuile spelletjes te spelen als die haar maar verder kunnen helpen. Chastity wil rijk en beroemd worden, het maakt niet uit hoe, en zet haar mooie lichaam in om te krijgen wat ze wil. Alledrie betalen ze de tol van de roem.‘

Paris is een must voor elke die-hard fashionista, graphic novelista, én de rest van de bevolking.’

Walter Van Beirendonck & Dirk Van Saene

‘Paris’ must be the most exquisitely dressed graphic novel the world has ever seen, where designer labels and vintage couture play as much of a role in the story as the debauched characters themselves. Full of beautiful people with ugly ideas, this book is an unhealthy cocktail of ‘Sex & The City’ and ‘Vogue’, with a generous splash of ‘The Valley of the Dolls’, and a covert dose of Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Invisible Monsters’ for bite.

This sordid tale of one city consists of two parts: ‘I Love Paris’ and ‘I Hate Paris’, each charting the rise and dramatic fall of three fashionistas trying to make it in the cut-throat modelling industry. Faith hopes to make it as a singer, Hope has faith that the disfiguring scar on her once flawless face can be fixed with a strategic ‘do, and Chastity is willing to do literally anything to get her bejeweled fingers on a mountain of cash. But the three of them categorically fail to live up to their names in their grim desperation to make it big.

Vande Wiele has illustrated a knowingly ridiculous yet loving portrayal of a world he clearly adores, bringing an elegant black line to the page as he pays tribute to the most superficial of the brilliantly superficial.

This is a no holds barred trash graphic novel.

The Comics Journal

A fresh and frank satirical twist to the cliche ‘fashion victim’

Paul Gravett

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