Super Model Natasha Poly Poses for LUI – Are Fashion Nudes The Future? [NSFW]
Fashion nudes have become more popular than ever and even Playboy has adopted this new trend to stimulate the new generation in hopes to gain readers and subscribers. What does this mean for the old Playboy fans and the GND fanatics? According to several International Playboy editors, the new “less-is-more” style we see in fashion/glam is fetching attention and popularity from younger demographics.
The images below are from revived magazine LUI’s March 2015 issue by photographers Iango Henzi + Luigi Murenu, who photographed super model Natasha Poly (Natalya Sergeyevna Polevshchikova) who has walked in hundreds of major fashion shows in Milan, Paris, and New York City and graced the cover of French Vogue twice consecutively.
Natasha Poly’s clients include: Gucci, Prada, Lanvin, Fendi, Louis Vuitton, Roberto Cavalli, Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, Dsquared2, Sonia Rykiel, Nine West, Proenza Schouler, H&M, Printemps, Blumarine, Jil Sander, Nina Ricci, Isabel Marant, Missoni, Calvin Klein, Givenchy, Balmain, Neiman Marcus, L’Oreal Paris, Jimmy Choo, MaxMara, Alberta Ferretti, JOOP!, PHI, Juicy Couture, Versace Sports Line, Emilio Pucci, Dolce & Gabbana.That is quite an impressive list and one might question why a supermodel would pose nude after such a successful career? The question should be, “why not?” as long as the pictorial is done tastefully. The lines of glamour and fashion are becoming more and more blurred. The conservative fashion industry does not always accept the fact that nudity has been welcomed by the major fashion market and used for shock value by the designers themselves.
Most of the models are totally comfortable with the crossover trend that was a big no-no just 5 years ago.”
LUI magazine seems to fetch more attention for the long-legged top model creatures than Playboy and models do not get as “branded” as a “Playboy model” would. Plus, the pay rates play an important role as well.
As far the lighting goes, you will quickly identify the minimalist approach and work of a fashion-
oriented photographer who only uses one single light source and is able to capture the magic. The pictorial is based on style instead of strong sexuality and cuteness often seen in the pages of Playboy. The model’s beauty carries across without major effort which is not always the case with GND models, who are known to be simple girls next door with features that are enhanced by wardrobe, hair & makeup and the lighting, of course.
If you are interested to learn more about the lighting used in this pictorial, make sure to check out Jarmo Pohjaniemi’s “Fashion is my Passion” lighting guide that shows in detail how to achieve such lighting and style with ease. →
Right or wrong and whatever the style we are going for, we as photographers should never forget where we came from and never underestimate the power of lighting styles which are the tools of any successful photographer.
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Playboy really had to do something to revive the magazine due to sagging sales. On that yahoo msg board somebody once noted the old playmates were essentially shoving their daughters in front of Hefner and pretty much destroying the creative process of really finding the right girl. I noticed how at Glamourcon Chicago where the old playmates or managerial type ladies showed and were rearranging things on Sunday morning and it was like. Didn’t they fire some these people and yet they showing up to rearrange the place or give their creative two cents worth. It was quite funny. Gee, wonder why Hef left Chicago and shutdown some of the other corporate locations. I guess, if I was a big magazine publisher and along comes a few guys with some hot babes and create a newer magazine with a fresh approach. Well, clearly their ship just had too many people on it and the ship was sitting on the keel.
If your pondering the fate of Playboy magazine. Hefner just might be the guy who could talk the state of Illinois into putting a casino up near Wisconson. Especially if the Navy decides to pull out of the area. As they probably bring in the state only so much money as compared to a casino and all the problems associated with them. Heck, I’ll bet Eric Clapton would be delighted to put a rehab up there as compared flying everybody off to Antigua, passports required for entry. And how many people do you know who’ve gone there and gotten cured? Look at how people in Chicago go to his funding shows and throw money at his cause but can they afford to go there? Probably not. Hence, I doubt if he’d be willing to bailout some people in trouble – though, he might. Somebody would be better off being stranded on one of those Islands on the Mississippi River and doing it cold turkey style verse a ton of grouping and support. Like look at how Hef lost all that weight years ago and his diet. Probably drank a ton of water in his time.
Course, if the Navy says they like it up there and all that clear air off the like. Well, Chicago should really adopt the toll road concept, which has a way of encouraging people to ride Metra & CTA. Like listen to WGN 720 on the AM radio some time. Listen to all car wrecks. Where one car stalls and there not a shoulder and everybody is like slamming into each other and it’s one big jam pileup. Then, when their sitting there all mangled they see up above the CTA “EL” go flying along. No pile up there just sleepy drivers crashing into O’Hare station – when it should have been automated years ago a bit like that Amtrak train that just flew off the tracks. Wonder who the clowns are that have demanded to keep their jobs in place – at the expense of the public safety. For instance, railroads are having these huge derailments of oil shipments at the electronic switch location. They could easily find somebody doing life in jail to be shackled by a chain at that switch location and live in a little shack and throw the switch when the oil train arrives and then throw it back. Hef probably remembers when at busy RR crossing how there be somebody there to stop traffic and would shoot the shit with everybody when there wasn’t any train traffic or just go back inside and finish reading his paper and suck down another cup of coffee. I doubt, if at the Playboy Mansion if there a little otatagon shaped building where one of Hef friend might of holed up at to get away from everybody and found a quiet space. Though, you guys should ask him and if he were worth a shit.
I wish I understood what these posters are talking about. But first, to Jarmo’s comments. Playboy was featuring nudes of high fashion models years and years ago. Veruschka, Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour to name just a few. So nudity from high fashion models is not a new phenomenon and certainly not a new one to Playboy. I think the Lui shooting is interesting, well done but I wonder about the shot of the model covering her pubic with a crab. A girl with the crabs is a turn off rather than a turn on.
One can’t argue that Playboy has sagging sales and I doubt there will be a solution, nude high fashion models or other. As far as Hef moving to LA, he did that over 40 years ago. That certainly had nothing to do with the Playboy’s current problems. I was with the magazine for nearly 40 years and I remember only one or two instances when a mother was involved in “pushing” a daughter towards trying out for Playmate and I can guarantee it would have made no impression whatsoever on Hef’s decision whether to proceed or not. I don’t know who the poster is referring to when it comes to people being fired and then coming back to “rearrange” things. These are past Playmates…and once a Playmate, always a Playmate. They can’t be fired. I can’t figure out what the second poster is trying to say except that Hef was always very thin, never lost “all that weight” and drank gallons of Pepsi, not water.
You guys as photographers did a great job. What probably happened at Playboy, times just changed. Hence, I have to wonder how much did “Carol Alt” pay playboy to be the centerfold for a December issue a few years ago. She’s a bit like this model or Kate Moss. Who just has a stale bread like look. Which if her boyfriend is British is going to have that old bread with his soup with his so called “Catch of the Day”. As he could of been eating steak or some BBQ ribs, but that another story.
There’s a great photo of Maria Sharapova with her mother for Mothers Day. And you can bet Maria gonna look just like her mother someday… Those Bulgarian guys always get the hotties.