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Sunday, Aug 30, 1998
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
"Everything's a fashion. Love, ideas, even war. Even politics!"-Polly Maggoo Photographer and filmmaker William Klein, in his work for Vogue, was witness to the Pop explosion in all its delicious absurdity. Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? is his satire on the fashion/media cartel. Polly is an American model (played by American model Dorothy MacGowan) pursued by television interviewers, slick-mag cynics, and not-so-charming princes. She is at once in demand and completely interchangeable for any other model (especially the next year's). Her homilies lend the ring of truth to Klein's fictional portrait of the Op Art era and its style dictators-like the "poet of sheet metal" who stuffs his models into metallic garments ("He's created woman!" a fashion editor exclaims). Klein's satirical fantasy itself had a following, inspiring a student bar in Paris called Polly Maggoo. (JB)
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