I mean, one of the hardest things was that the last proof of concept was gay porn.”Īnd that’s what Playgirl, decades ago, was. I want to have more fun when it comes to nudity, but in a beautiful way that’s of substance. Solidifying our purpose and ideas is important, and so we needed to come out with a highly elevated visual, so that in the future we can make it more fun - and it’s already a fun magazine. Is Playgirl, through Jack’s eyes, still an erotic title? “Issue one needed to make a statement about what the magazine represented one that’s 50 years old and has transformed from being really strong into…” he pauses slightly. The appetite for nudity has not wavered, more so, the way in which it’s expected to be framed has evolved. Playgirl’s loosely tied (though officially unaffiliated) brother title, Playboy, made a transition in the mid-2010s that saw it remove all forms of nudity, later restoring it in a more respectful and creative form under the guidance of a predominantly women and queer-led editorial team. Now it’s Chloë Sevigny, pregnant, photographed by Mario Sorrenti.” “The cover of the last issue was ‘ Campus Hunks of Fort Lauderdale’. “It’s a woman-driven political magazine with an art-focus,” Jack says. In one spread, seen below, the Sports Illustrated model-slash-photographer Myla Dalbesio has profiled some of the modern women reshaping beauty standards from the inside of the industry. Literary features are there in abundance. The reportage is a return to form: they’ve found powerful and relevant modern figures akin to those feminist icons once profiled by the title. Silhouetted physiques are juxtaposed with playful erect penises, pointing at each other over a double-page spread as deserving of space on the walls of an art gallery as they are in the pages of a woman’s magazine.
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A trashy centrefold of naked men with their flaccid dicks on show has been transformed into a beautiful, tasteful series of nude bodies of all ethnicities framed by Harley Weir.
The original rendition through Jack’s lens played on that old fashioned stud mindset, but as the creative team started to gather around them, a new vision came forth: a revival of Playgirl’s original DNA, only tasteful and high brow. “I knew this magazine could be elevated in so many ways.” “I always knew from the beginning, when Playgirl came into my life, that this could be so much more, and that was before I knew anything about Playgirl.” When he first acquired it in 2016, he started finding old issues of its glory days, back when it lived up to its reputation as being ‘Entertainment for Women’ as opposed to fairly straightforward porn. Alex Wiederin, legendary leader of fashion titles and campaigns the world over, heads up the magazine’s creative direction. Skye Parrott, once a managing editor at Self-Service and a studio manager for Nan Goldin, assumes the role of Editor-in-Chief. And so, he began plotting that very path to Playgirl’s stunning 2020 reinvention, crafting a supreme editorial team. “ of what this represents - not only to people today but its future,” Jack says. It became gossip-y and went rogue, convincing Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin’s grandchild, to pose naked in the wake of Palin’s failed campaign to become the Republican party’s 2008 presidential candidate for a healthy sum of money.įor Jack Lindley Kuhns, publisher of the new Playgirl magazine, that was the most formative memory of the title growing up a claim he’s embarrassed about now. The photos were titillating the storytelling colourful.īut as the internet became the go-to place for nude photography, and the growing gay readership of Playgirl shifted with it, the magazine doubled down on its salaciousness in a knee-jerk, self-owning manner.
While the world battled with these issues, within its pages Playgirl had the definitive, longstanding voice on them.
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It was rebellious and brilliant, for a while at least a fascinating reaction to the free love and feminist movements that solidified something that had long been apparent to women within their own circles: that they could be autonomous and authoritative voices on sex and their own existence.
47 years ago when the title first launched, it was admired for its tasteful take on male nudity, and for being a delicious, feminist antidote to the objectified pictures of clothes-less women (almost always shot by male photographers) that existed in a number of titles that catered to the tasteless patriarchy. This is, after all, a Playgirl magazine for a new generation.
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