USA, Los Angeles

Arists

“I went to a load of parties with Sean Penn and Quentin Tarantino types, sniffing kilometres of coke and drinking with celebrities... Typical Hollywood where nothing is real. Finally I met James. He asked me: 'Do you want to live here?'

I said yes.” Daisy

Abstracts

"Rodeo Ground. I’d heard of the legend of Topanga, where Bob Dylan and his band would come to chill out in hammocks, in the good old hippy era. Friends told me that there was a fun girl there, a pretty redhead who I’d like. They weren’t mistaken.

Daisy put a contemporary slant on an argument put forward 2000 or so years ago, in a play by Aristophanes. During an endless conflict between Sparta and Athens, Lysistrata, a feminist heroine, persuaded a gathering of women to refuse their favours for as long as the war lasted… No peace, no pussy!"

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard