And so they begin to perform, putting on huge, flamboyant parties, their life becoming, essentially, an art installation mediated through the gaze of Facebook. It follows Zoe and Hailey, two American art students on a year abroad in Berlin who sublet a palatial flat from Beatrice, the author of bestselling potboilers, and suspect that she is spying on them as fodder for her next novel. The book beams us back to an era when Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton et al ruled the headlines and social media was in its babyhood.
So despite being set in 2008, Other People’s Clothes, the debut novel from Berlin-based American artist and writer Calla Henkel, feels timely.
T he treatment of female celebrities in the first decade of the century has been subject to much dissection – those who spent their teens watching it through the lenses of the paparazzi and the women’s magazine have come of age, and those who suffered in the camera’s glare, most notably Britney Spears, continue to suffer.
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