Kate Moss's Playboy Cover Confirmed

Kate Moss will appear on the cover of Playboy to celebrate the magazine's 60th birthday - and her 40th. The cover was rumoured in June, although both parties declined to comment at the time, and has now been confirmed by the magazine.

"This is a massive global brand,"Playboy's editorial director, Jimmy Jellinek, told the Los Angeles Times. "You need a global icon in order to celebrate that - that was the impetus. You're talking about the face of Burberry, the biggest supermodel in the world on the cover of Playboy. She's the perfect partner for us to help launch the next 60 years… It started with Marilyn Monroe on the cover of Playboy 60 years ago, an icon for her time. Now we've got Kate Moss!"

Kate Moss For Playboy

Moss's cover will be for the January/February issue and is rumoured to already have been shot by her photographer friends Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner added: "She's a worldwide celebrity, is iconic, and crosses the boundaries from sexual imagery to upscale modelling. It's a natural for us."