PHOTOGRAPHER: ELLIS SCOTT

ART DIRECTION: EDWARD QUARMBY

STYLIST: MISCHA NOTCUTT

Casting and styling assistant: Scarlett Valentine

Hair: Makita Naka using Bumble and Bumble

Make-up: Nadine Elias using MAC

Models: Hirschy and Robbie at Select; Lewis, Claire, Billie, Keiran

During the 70s and 80s, bisexual former stripper and groundbreaking author Kathy Acker penned a series of post-punk rewrites of classics such as

Great Expectations, Huckleberry Finn

and

Don Quixote

, with added abortion, rape, incest, pornography, graphic violence, terrorism and feminism.

Diesel jeans

Humanoid-lover Thivai from Empire of the Senseless, based on William Gibson’s Neuromancer.

Atsuko Kudo bra, vintage top

The autobiographical murderer the Black Tarantula from Portrait of an Eye.

Alpha 60 vest, adidas trousers, Converse shoes

Sancho Panza from Don Quixote, based on the Cervantes classic.

Stolen Girlfriends Club jacket, Vivienne Westwood top, Nike 6.0 jumper, vintage top from Beyond Retro, Atsuko Kudo suspender belt, American Apparel bloomers

Miss Havisham from Great Expectations, based on the Charles Dickens tale.

American Apparel vest and trousers from Beyond Retro

Janey Smith, the sex addict in love with her father, from Blood and Guts in High School, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

American Apparel t-shirt, vintage Diesel dress, coat from Beyond Retro, vintage jewellery

Ange, the time-travelling pirate prostitute, from Pussy, King of the Pirates.