Former Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry has managed to convince one of the world’s most famous models to grace the cover of his newest solo album. Kate Moss appears draped across a bed covered by white sheets, red lipstick and a diamond necklace in the photo which was inspired by an Édouard Manet painting called Olympia, from which the forthcoming album also takes its title.

“It’s a picture I’ve always been very fond of,” Ferry said of the influential and controversial painting of 1863. “It was kind of an early pin-up, really, of this beautiful woman lying on a bed; it’s an early prototype for the Roxy covers, if you like.”

It’s not the first time Ferry has used a major star in his album cover art. One of Roxy Music’s covers, for the album Siren in 1975, featured Jerry Hall, who Ferry was engaged to until Hall met Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

Ferry chose Moss to model for him because, “she’s a great femme fatale of our era,” he told The Daily Mail. The supermodel has been on the cover of over 300 magazines including British Vogue 30 times,.

Olympia is Ferry’s first solo release since his 2007 Bob Dylan covers album, Dylanesque and features contributions from his former Roxy Music bandmate Brian Eno. But Ferry told the Daily Mail that he doesn't foresee a Roxy Music reunion happening in the future. “I don't think we'll record as Roxy again. We went into the studio after the 2001 reunion. We fiddled around a bit, but then I went off to make another solo record.”