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Kate Moss poses topless
for magazine's 60th anniversary cover
Fifty Shades Of Playboy: Kate wears bunny ears and a mask
It's the magazine spread we've all been waiting for and on Monday, Kate Moss was finally unveiled in all her supermodel glory as the cover star of Playboy's 60th edition.
Pictured wearing a very Fifty Shades Of Grey masked set of bunny ears, the supermodel put a couture spin on her debut in the adult magazine.
Kate, 39, is seen posing topless in the artfully arranged shoot showing off her razor-sharp cheekbones, and her still slender figure.
The Croydon-born catwalk star, 39, features in a huge 18 pages of the January/February issue of the racy magazine, as well as the cover, to celebrate her forthcoming 40th birthday in 2014.
Inside the covers, Moss appears topless, but partially obscured behind purple fabric, while wearing the pink and black bunny ears and a Eyes Wide Shut style mask.
Another of the shots taken by top fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott released by the magazine shows the supermodel gazing at the camera while lying on her back, with just some expensive jewellery covering her wrist.
The cover of the magazine's 60th anniversary double issue features Moss in a kneeling position in a traditional black Playboy bunny suit, white cuffs and a collar, black silk bunny ears, black stilettos and a white pom pom tail.
The model will appear at designer friend Marc Jacob's Mount Street store in London on Monday to publicise the edition.
One of her Playboys shots featured on an invitation and a blow up of the cover was proudly placed in the store window.
Editorial director Jimmy Jellinek said: 'Playboy's anniversary edition is a testament to 60 years of beautiful women, discerning taste, sexual emancipation, groundbreaking fiction and world-changing journalism.
'Having Kate Moss, a global icon and the most important supermodel of the past 25 years, appear on our cover makes this issue the perfect way to launch Playboy's next 60 years.'
Playboy founder and editor-in-chief Hugh Hefner, who has been criticised for demeaning women, said: 'Sixty years ago, I created Playboy magazine with an intent to reflect on and influence the cultural changes taking place in America, as well as to become the voice of sophisticated men all over the world.
'From its beginning, Playboy has stood for freedom of speech, freedom of choice and freedom of the press. I am so proud to celebrate this anniversary as the magazine continues its mission to promote these core values many decades later.'
MailOnline shared the first exclusive glimpse of the Brit supermodel's dare-to-bare shoot last month.
 
Kate, who is married to musician Jamie Hince, is mother to 11-year-old Lila Grace, by her ex-partner Jefferson Hack.
The shoot was meant to be top secret, but in June it was reported that Kate's hairstylist Oribe Canales had accidentally revealed she had already posed for fashion photographers Marcus Pigott and Mert Atlas, who have taken portraits of stars ranging from Lady Gaga to Jennifer Lopez and Madonna.
Playboy's 60th anniversary edition, which also features an interview with Hollywood actor Ben Affleck and feminists such as Erica Jong and Naomi Wolf discussing 'the best and worst of sexual liberation in modern America', is out on Friday.
Meanwhile Kate is to be honoured at the British Fashion Awards, cementing her position as one of the world's most celebrated supermodels.
 
The 39-year-old will receive a 'Special Recognition Award' at the event on Monday in celebration of her 25-year career, which began in New York at Storm, a leading model agency.
Moss has modelled clothes by almost every major fashion designer, including Louis Vuitton and Stella McCartney, and most recently became the face of make-up company Rimmel.
Donatella Versace, who used the British model for her Autumn/Winter collection this year, said: "From the very beginning Kate was iconic; she never had to become a model.
'She has the same energy, the same seduction and the same wit - in front of the camera and with everyone.'
The recognition award will join a long list of others on Moss' mantelpiece, including two model of the year awards in 2006 and 2009, and the first British Fashion Award, which is decided by public vote.
Other potential winners of this this year's prizes, which will be awarded at the London Coliseum, include Victoria Beckham, Marc Jacobs, Prada and rising star Cara Delevingne.
The awards were established in 1989, and celebrate the contributions of British designers and models to the global fashion industry.
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