"Everything's a fashion. Love, ideas, even war. Even politics!" Polly Maggoo As a former Vogue photographer, Klein was a witness to the Pop explosion in all its delicious absurdity and he spares it not a bit in Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, 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-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 (still right on target) 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 first feature took the European film press by storm and won the Prix Jean Vigo at the Cannes Film Festival. As Jonathan Rosenbaum writes, "Klein's brand of satirical fantasy was infectious enough at the time to have given a popular student bar in Paris the name 'Polly Maggoo.' But fueled by a kind of giddy venom and an intoxicated love-hatred for glitz, his satire has a hyperbolic energy of its own that makes it as distinct from Swinging London and the (French) New Wave as it is from apparent Hollywood equivalents of the 1950s and early 1960s."