Playboy has been quietly relaunched as an ad-free quarterly. Edited by a millennial triumvirate, the magazine is virtually unrecognizable from the one Hugh Hefner created. By Jessica Bennett. It was a Tuesday morning at the Westwood headquarters of Playboy Enterprises, and editors were preparing to close their summer issue. Gathered between a velvet love seat and a view of Santa Monica, they discussed upcoming stories — a piece on B. Singh said, seated beneath a Herb Ritts portrait of Cindy Crawford. The women who would pose in that water — their limbs wrapped around one another in a balletlike pose — were not simply models but activists.
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In a wood-paneled dining room, with Picasso and de Kooning prints on the walls, Mr. Jones nervously presented a radical suggestion: the magazine, a leader of the revolution that helped take sex in America from furtive to ubiquitous, should stop publishing images of naked women. Hefner, now 89, but still listed as editor in chief, agreed. As part of a redesign that will be unveiled next March, the print edition of Playboy will still feature women in provocative poses. But they will no longer be fully nude. Its executives admit that Playboy has been overtaken by the changes it pioneered. For a generation of American men, reading Playboy was a cultural rite, an illicit thrill consumed by flashlight. Now every teenage boy has an Internet-connected phone instead. Pornographic magazines, even those as storied as Playboy, have lost their shock value, their commercial value and their cultural relevance.
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Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. At age 65, Candace Collins Jordan is stripping down for Playboy again. The Southern Illinois native previously became a Playmate in December Before then, she was a Bunny at the Playboy Club in St. Louis in Since then, Jordan was a nine-time cover girl. Photo courtesy of Playboy. Hefner passed away in at age Fox News: How did you end up becoming a Bunny in ?
By Carly Stern For Dailymail. Playboy model and centerfold Candace Collins Jordan says it was 'a thrill in every way' to return to the magazine at age 65, 40 years after she first posed in its pages. Jordan first joined the Playboy family as a Bunny in , and went on to cover the magazine nine times in all, even moving into the Mansion with Hugh Hefner for a period. Then late last year, she was invited back for a special shoot spotlighting Playmates of every age — and, she writes for the Huffington Post , it's been such a joy that she hopes to come back again when she's Triumphant return: Playboy model and centerfold Candace Collins Jordan returned to the magazine for its Equality Issue in December Jordan was a Bunny at the St. Louis Club in , eventually joined the club in Chicago, and was posing for the magazine before the decade was up. But her career with the publication lasted decades longer than she could have imagined. Jordan, who never had qualms about posing nude, was excited when she was invited to be a part of the October shoot.
