Patrick Bateman. Glossy raincoat. Business card. Axe. Once a parody of toxic masculinity, he’s now a near blueprint for the so-called manosphere: the filtered face, the disciplined body, the apartment with no life inside it. In the first editorial for FUTURISTIC DRAGON our photographic director Lucas Alexander Wilson directs model and influencer Elle Erasmus in an editorial that holds up s a bloody mirror to the insipid patriarchy of our moment, reclaiming Brett Easton Ellis’s seminal American Psycho for a new generation by flipping the narrative – a woman in red, bathed in blood, inhabits the same ruthless persona, stripped of the male entitlement but not the power.

The character moves from icy control to full unraveling mirroring the film’s descent into chaos but with a gendered lens that reframes what it means to perform sociopathy, control, and perfection. The horror isn’t in the violence anymore — it’s in the symmetry. By swapping the male lead for a female one, the satire cuts deeper. We see how male violence is often glamorised, turned into a meme or style icon while female rage is policed, feared, or dismissed. This shoot asks: what happens when the woman is just as polished, just as empty? Does it still feel like some twisted aspirational late-capitalism machismo? Or does the fantasy fall apart?

All quotes from the novel American Psycho published by Random House