Baroness by Sarah Baker x Versace

Calling the shots from beneath her Versace satin sheets, Baroness is back for the holiday season with her scintillating book Baroness by Sarah Baker and a new guest editor, Donatella Versace. The second instalment of Baroness visits the world of romantic novels with a photographic storybook penned and visualised by the performance artist Sarah Baker. Following the lives of five outrageous characters as they navigate tumultuous affairs, the story begins when American music mogul An­gelina Marina, played by Baker, receives an unwanted holiday gift, inadvertently opening a sordid, seasonal tale of tangled lives and treachery. Everything is at stake—Angelina’s freedom, the loyalty of her daughter, her friendship with The Baroness, and—worst of all—the royalties from her hit single, ‘Spritz Me with Your Love’. Powerful women in popular culture are often depicted as ‘bitches,’ using everything at their disposal to get their way. Baker, however, subverts this tired narrative and creates a story in which the central female characters work collaboratively to deal with blackmail and deceit. There are no cat fights here.