It comes with a few graphs of text by Amanda Fortini, who notes that Sevigny became pregnant at age 45, making her and her boyfriend Sinisa Mackovic instant fodder for the paparazzi because she had once famously said that she owed her youthful skin to “not having had a baby.” The article on Sevigny is mostly a pictorial, wrapping in about a dozen artsy photos of the actress by Sorrenti in her eighth month of pregnancy. “This Playgirl feels more like a nice coffee table book with nude pictures and great articles.” “It is not anything like the pornographic Playgirl that died in 2015,” said Samir Husni, founder and director of the Magazine Innovation Center at The University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism. The first edition was priced to sell at $1 a copy, or $8 for a year’s subscription.īut while Parrott’s edition still contains a portfolio of a dozen nude male images shot by Harley Weir, it also includes personal essays and art, including a piece written by New York Times bestselling author Carvell Wallace that starts off: “Good f***ing riddance to the patriarchy.” The new version also costs a lot more at $20 a pop.
By contrast the original Playgirl at its peak in the mid-to-late 70s had been selling 1.5 million copies. The new Playgirl, born in an age when clickbait cats posts compete with in-depth magazine reporting, debuted with fewer than 10,000 copies in major US cities and London before selling out and going back to press. We wanted to focus on the human side rather than photograph her with a lot of layers between her and the camera.”
“It seemed like a much less sexual and much more human way to look at the female body,” said Parrott.Īnd while Parrott admits there were hair and make-up stylists on board for the mid-March shoot, which took place right before coronavirus lockdowns shuttered New York City, she says the idea was to keep the image deliberately minimalist. “We wanted a more honest and female gaze,” said Parrott, who snagged Italian photographer Mario Sorrenti to do the shoot. The photo is captivating not for its nudity - a nod to Tina Brown’s famous 1991 Vanity Fair cover that featured a nude and pregnant Demi Moore - but for the actress’s apparent lack of airbrushing and stylizing.
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But Parrott says she’s attempting to capture the enlightened feminist appeal of the mags early years, which boasted writers like Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem and Joyce Carol Oates, and not the porn mag for gay men it became when it folded in 2015.Īnd unlike the original 1973 issue, there’s not a man in sight on the cover.įor her debut issue, Parrott relied instead on a nude and very pregnant Chloë Sevigny known for a string of cutting edge films, picking up an Academy Award nomination for the “Boys Don’t Cry,” and portraying Nicolette Grant for five years on the HBO series “Big Love.”Īt the top it reads: “We’ll take it from here.” It’s now owned by Jack Lindley Kuhns, who two years ago tapped Skye Parrott, former co-founder of the art and fashion magazine Dossier, to be editor-in-chief of the relaunch. Like the first edition - founded by LA nightclub owner Douglas Lambert with Marin Scott Milan helming editorial - the current incarnation is also a man/woman tag-team. Playgirl returned to newsstands this month and like the original that debuted in 1973, it quickly sold out. Rolling Stone names top Daily Beast staffer as new editor in chief Kaitlan Collins bylines deleted on stories she did for Tucker Carlson site Pickleball craze inspires new lifestyle magazine Kaitlan Collins’ missing Daily Caller bylines restored - but mystery remains
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