“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. 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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