Background
She was born and raised in Paris, France. Her mother is a news photographer of Russian descent, and her father, a French businessman and art collector.
She was born and raised in Paris, France. Her mother is a news photographer of Russian descent, and her father, a French businessman and art collector.
Her second novel Superstars has given her a cult status in France. At age 16, she moved alone to London, England where she became a musician, playing drums with local punk bands. At 18, she turned to fashion modelling for three years and was one of the first tattooed fashion model to break through in prêt-à-porter and couture in the eighties.
She is now a fiction writer and the author of six novels including Superstars which has become a cult novel translated in several countries.
She also publishes short stories in magazines and co-wrote Paradize for French band Indochine for their album of the same title. She has been romantically involved with French singer Patrick Eudeline, guitarist Lenny Kaye and other musicians from the London 1980s rock scene.
She is also known to have had bisexual affairs She dated French deejay Sextoy for three years, to whom she paid tribute after her death in her third book
Before she became published, she shared a flat in Paris with French writer Virginie Despentes.
She was strongly rejected by a part of the French gay and lesbian community after declaring on the set of French television show Nulle Participant Ailleurs that she found homosexuality "immature": "Being bisexual has often brought some kind of balance to my life, but having strict homosexual relationships led to pathological experiences for me".
She is regarded as a social realist for her novels which paint detailed portraits of contemporary youth haunted by teenage boredom, drugs, materialism and sexual transgression.