Kraftwerk’s single ‘The Model’ is a famous catchy track that through layers of synthesised melodies and harmonies highlights the ambiguous status fashion models live in, often posing for consumer goods and turning their bodies into objêts de luxe in the hands of designers and photographers. But there’s model and model and there are just a few ones that I really love, like Veruschka to whom I dedicated a post a few days ago. One of the models I admire is Polly Fey. Polly isn’t your stereotypical fashion magazine girl. She is in fact a young woman with a many-sided personality, differentiating her interests and her work not only in fashion but also in music.
Her career started by chance: when she was 18 she did a couple of fashion shows for a young designer who was a friend of her and then, quite accidentally, she ended up on some magazine covers in the space of about three months. One thing led to another and, as Polly’s image became more popular on the pages of British fashion magazines such as The Face or i-D, she also became a well-known face in the London clubland scene, and, in particular, around clubs such as Ministry of Sound, The Cock and Heaven.
As the years passed, Polly turned into a muse for French photographer Pierre Commoy and painter Gilles Blanchard, better known as duo Pierre et Gilles, authors of famous visually glamorous and fantastic pictures infused with references to religion, sex and fame. She met them in 1993 and she has been collaborating with them since then.
Polly also linked her name to the clubland and music scene: she is one of the acts on at Manumission party nights, she recorded a couple of covers – 
Kraftwerk’s ‘The Model’ and Billy Idol’s ‘Rebel Yell’ (both downloadable from her MySpace page) – and collaborated with a well-known figure in contemporary Spanish underground music history, performer, singer and composer Antonio Glamour, from electroclash band Glamour To Kill. Polly met him in 1997 and, since then, the two have collaborated together on various occasions. 
In 2005 Polly featured on the band’s single ‘Rent Me’, and she recorded three new tracks with Antonio’s new project, E.N.O. She also starred in George Michael’s video for his 2006 single ‘An Easier Affair’. I guess that, though music and fashion are two very different worlds, both allow her to dress up, wear the most wonderful creations and work with teh most amazing people.
People connected to the music or fashion world tend to take their styles very seriously and Polly has a very distinctive look, her shaved head highlighting her bright eyes, the ink of the tattoos on her body contrasting with her translucent skin. She adores shoes, but she also loves corsets by Hustle & Coke and the wonderful creations of Catalan designer Manuel Albarran.
In some fashion spreads Polly looks like an enigmatic androgynous character, in others she’s a dreamy ethereal woman, a fetish queen or a powerful cyborg with a soft heart and a mysterious past. Polly is based in London, but often travels between Great Britain and Spain. She never seems to have anything definitely planned for her future as she doesn’t like to arrange things in advance, but you can be sure she has something exciting in the pipes just waiting to happen. After all, there are just no limits to her creativity, vitality and enthusiasm for new and exciting projects.
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