PARIS Design Week has launched the career of many an artist, but few can boast as esteemed a political pedigree as Stephanie Key.

The 20-year-old daughter of John Key, New Zealand’s centre-right prime minister, is set to debut her provocative photographic self-portraits in the French exhibition next month.

Stephanie, a student at the Paris College of Art, has created a series of erotic images. They include a shot of her modelling topless while biting suggestively on a cherry.

PM John Key with his daughter Stephanie (AP/Ross Setford)

Another photograph, which depicts her naked with sushi covering her breasts and an octopus veiling her pelvis, has been selected to promote the art school’s show.

Food and nudity feature heavily in Key’s work. Hamburgers and cartons of McDonald’s chips appear in one self-portrait in which she