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Michelle Olley (born July 15, 1966 in Warrington, Cheshire, England) is a British writer, journalist and magazine and book editor. Michelle Olley attended the University of Westminster in London where she attained a BA (Hons) in Media Studies, specialising in print journalism. She began her career in journalism at TW Publishing Ltd when writing and feature-editing Skin Two magazine (along with co-founders and editors, Tim Woodward and Grace Lau) – interviewing, amongst others, Jean Paul Gaultier, Tim Burton, Marilyn Manson, The Cramps, Marc Almond, Terence Sellers and Clive Barker – before becoming associate editor and director of TW Publishing Ltd at only 23 years of age. n 1992, Olley instigated the now-famous fetish club night the Skin Two Rubber Ball, which in the 1990s went on to become the largest and most high-profile fetish party in the world. From 1992 to 2000, Olley was vocalist with the electronic band Salon Kitty, composed of Olley on vocals, Simon Hoare on guitar, Neil Albert on keyboards/backing vocals, Andrew Mann also on backing vocals, Robert Michael on keyboards and Cliff Hewitt on drums . In 1995, the band released the single, Freak (written by Olley/Hoare) on Liquid Gold Records, and in 1996 signed to Epic Records. (Simon Hoare later went on to become a member of the bands Raymonde and RPLA. Whilst at Fable, Olley was chosen by the British designer Alexander McQueen to be the main model for what became one of his most celebrated creations: the centre piece tableaux of his 2001 spring/summer collection, named VOSS. The centre piece – which featured Olley within an enormous, moth-filled glass box, the sides of which fell away and smashed – was based on the Joel Peter Witkin image Sanitarium. She appeared as the finale tableau in the celebrated Alexander McQueen S/S 01 Voss show. She was arranged naked and covered in moths inside a glass box in an image that paid tribute to Joel-Peter Witkin's Sanitarium photograph. Olley was interviewed for the documentary on the life and work of McQueen, directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, released in 2018.
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