Kate Moss Playboy Update: Chuck Close Involved?

The latest news on Kate Moss's Playboy cover, which will supposedly come out for the magazine's 60th anniversary issue in January: the Post reports that the model has commissioned artist Chuck Close to do a painting based on the spread, which was supposedly shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. Reps for the magazine wouldn't comment, so who knows, but involving Close would be an interesting way to gussy up a Playboy shoot into something more highbrow and art-y. What's more, Close has worked with Moss before — he took a series of arresting photographs of her entirely nude back in 2003, so this would be a ten year reunion of sorts. How sweet.

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Kate Moss Still Plagued by Playboy Rumors

There were rumblings of Kate Moss for a Playboy cover back in March, but it seemed so implausible — Moss is hardly hurting for work or attention — that they quickly quieted down. But now they're back, thanks to hairstylist Oribe, who told Refinery29 that he'd done Moss's hair for the shoot in question. It'll supposedly come out in January, pegged to Moss's 40th birthday, and no doubt be "tasteful." Meanwhile, let's not forget that she's done so many nude shoots (including this year, for self-tanning brand St. Tropez, shown above), that full frontal would hardly be untrodden territory.

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