Ives said the magazine's political and cultural coverage is still buzz-worthy, "but it’s not a newsmaker like it was in the old days." Bretman Rock has just made history as the first openly gay male star on the cover of Playboy. Once our readers see all of the innovative changes we’re making to the magazine, we’re confident they will love the end product when it debuts next year.” We will stay true to those core values with this new vision of Playboy’s future.
"We are more free to express ourselves politically, sexually and culturally today, and that’s in large part thanks to Hef’s heroic mission to expand those freedoms. Its editor in chief Helen Gurley Brown refocused the Cosmo as magazine for woman.
Firstly published in 1886 as a family magazine, it was the 60’s that made Cosmopolitan famous. In 2004 Nicole Kidman graced one of the most beautiful Vogue covers. “The political and sexual climate of 1953, the year Hugh Hefner introduced Playboy to the world, bears almost no resemblance to today,” Playboy Enterprises CEO Scott Flanders said in a statement. Cosmopolitan is one of the best-selling women’s magazines in the history.
Black history of Chicagos South and West Sides, and the media and. “If you’re a man between the ages of 18 and 80, Playboy is meant for you,” he wrote in that issue's editor’s letter. of Darine Stern, first solo Black cover girl of Playboy magazine, is documented. Hefner, 89, is still the magazine's editor-in-chief, though he now surpasses the original target audience he addressed in his first 1953 issue. in 1965 and former president Jimmy Carter in 1976 when he admitted he "committed adultery in my heart many times." Other changes include a larger size to 9 inches by 11 inches, and heavier, higher quality paper "to give the magazine a more collectible feel," the magazine said today, and more changes will be announced in the "coming months."Īmong Playboy's most iconic moments include its first issue that featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover, an interview with Martin Luther King, Jr. To celebrate 60 years of Playboy, The Daily Beast gives you the 35 most iconic Playboy magazine covers. If Playboy loses some older subscribers and can gain some younger ones, the magazine will consider that a win, Ives said. 1953, the first issue of Playboy magazine was released.
"The young adults that advertisers want to reach already know how to find nudity online, while the people who cared about getting nudity in Playboy may have skewed a little older," Ives said.