{"product_id":"plc-s2-06-pussycat-dolls","title":"Pussycat Dolls","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"fpa-product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003ch1\u003ePussycat Dolls\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003ePhotographed by Arny Freytag, featuring Robin Antin and Richard Collins. June 1999. Unpublished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eAn unpublished image from June 1999, Pussycat Dolls captures the original burlesque incarnation of the group years before the name became a global pop act. Photographed by Arny Freytag, the image features Robin Antin, founder of the Pussycat Dolls, inside the retro theatrical world she built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eAntin created the Pussycat Dolls as a burlesque troupe in 1995, performing at The Viper Room in Los Angeles with a style drawn from Bettie Page, classic cheesecake, cabaret, and striptease without surrendering to the strip-club vocabulary of the era. The group would later be recast as an R\u0026amp;B pop act, but this image belongs to the earlier world: witty, theatrical, retro, and deliberately staged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eFreytag described the lighting that gives the photograph its mood:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cblockquote class=\"pullquote\"\u003eI love the colors and the lack of front light. It creates a nice mood.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eIn Pussycat Dolls, Antin stands in corset, striped stockings, and boots, one leg lifted over a bentwood chair as a sailor figure appears below her. A circular moonlike light glows behind her outstretched hand, while blue shadow, low footlights, and stage haze turn the scene into a burlesque tableau. The image feels less like a photograph taken backstage than a performance frozen at its most theatrical instant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003ePhotographed by Freytag, modeled by Antin and Collins, and preserved within the Playboy Legacy Collection, the work is part of the forty-eight-print archival edition released for Playboy's 50th anniversary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eCollection Note\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp class=\"meta\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/playboy-legacy-collection\"\u003eRead the full history of the Playboy Legacy Collection\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Playboy Legacy Collection","offers":[{"title":"16 × 20 in - $450","offer_id":47674887307489,"sku":"PL-LC-S2-06-16","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20 × 24 in - $625","offer_id":47674887340257,"sku":"PL-LC-S2-06-24","price":625.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"30 × 40 in - $850","offer_id":48399920726241,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"40 × 50 in - $1150","offer_id":48399920759009,"sku":null,"price":1150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2765\/9233\/files\/PLCS2-06_PUSSYCAT_DOLLS_finephotoart.png?v=1779510953","url":"https:\/\/www.finephoto.art\/products\/plc-s2-06-pussycat-dolls","provider":"FinePhoto.Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}