Girls of KISS
Girls of KISS
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Girls of KISS
An unpublished image from March 1999, Girls of KISS captures Gene Simmons himself in full Demon makeup and silver armor, surrounded by models transformed in KISS stage paint. Photographed by Arny Freytag for Playboy's KISS collaboration, the image sits somewhere between erotic tableau, glam-rock spectacle, and theatrical group portrait.
The shoot was built as a full production. Dozens of models came through a multi-day casting process, while Playboy makeup artists were trained to apply the band's signature black-and-white stage looks, a process that took hours. Freytag constructed a series of tableaux from leather, chains, painted faces, and red theatrical light, with Simmons at the center of the mythology.
Freytag described the discipline behind this kind of large composition:
I am very good at groups of people. I have a degree in design, and I think that really helps your eye flow around the image.
In Girls of KISS, Simmons occupies the center in studded silver armor and Demon face paint, tongue out, while the models gather around him in KISS makeup, leather, chains, and fishnets. The image is dense but controlled, a pyramid of bodies, costume, and attitude staged as pure glam-rock fantasy.
Selected as an unpublished outtake for the Playboy Legacy Collection, the work preserves a rare moment where the band member is not behind the concept or adjacent to the story, but physically inside the frame.
Photographed by Freytag and preserved within the Playboy Legacy Collection, the work is part of the forty-eight-print archival edition released for Playboy's 50th anniversary.
Collection Note
The Playboy Legacy Collection was released in 2007 for the magazine's 50th anniversary as a forty-eight-print archival edition curated under the direction of Hugh Hefner. Each print is embossed with the archive seal bearing the Playboy Bunny mark and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.