"(Paul) Jasmin's models have a relaxed confidence — a deeply held belief in their own beauty and the beauty of their insular world — and so convincingly offhand are the pictures that one almost believes such a world exists. Jasmin himself doesn't entirely: Sofia Coppola spent time serving as Jasmin's muse; she wrote one of the book's introductions, explaining how Jasmin justified his single-minded pursuit of the pretty: 'It's a shitstorm out there,' she quotes him as saying."