Our Diora

Our Diora

Our Diora

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Print Size & Custom Framing

Listed dimensions refer to the image size. Each print includes an additional border around the image for matting and framing.

Optional matte black hardwood framing is available at checkout. Each frame is hand-crafted with museum-grade white mat board, UV-protected acrylic, and hanging hardware, and ships fully assembled.

Authenticity & Provenance

Every print ships with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Depending on the work, prints may also carry an embossed archive seal, edition numbering, estate signature, or additional provenance records, as stated on the product page.

Shipping & Returns

Unframed works typically ship within 1–2 business days in archival-safe packaging. Framed works are hand-assembled to order and require up to two weeks before dispatch. Tracking is provided once the order has been released for shipment.

Returns and cancellations are accepted within 24 hours of purchase. If your work arrives damaged, contact us and we will repair, replace where possible, or resolve the issue at no cost.

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Our Diora

Published in Playboy in August 2005, Our Diora is a golden, cinematic nude of actress Diora Baird, photographed by Odette Sugerman in an opulent Pasadena mansion. Conceived as an homage to the French film Belle de Jour, the image casts Baird in a world of gilt furniture, satin, mirrors, and candlelight, with the poise and theatrical glamour of classic European cinema.

Baird was a working actress when she posed for the magazine, known for film and television work including Wedding Crashers. Behind the camera was Odette Sugerman, one of the few women photographers represented in the collection. British and raised on Vancouver Island, Sugerman spent a decade as a hairdresser before teaching herself photography, bringing a refined, sensual eye to this first major Playboy assignment. Baird's resemblance to a young Catherine Deneuve gave the pictorial its visual key.

Baird described her fascination with Deneuve simply:

I got addicted to her movies and wanted to be like her.

In Our Diora, Baird is posed across an ornate gilded chair before a gold-framed mirror, an open ivory shirt falling from her shoulders, black-banded stockings and heels catching the light. The reflection doubles the scene, turning the room into a chamber of satin, gilt, and honeyed shadow. The whole frame feels less like a studio nude than a still from a private European film.

Photographed by Sugerman, modeled by Baird, 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.

Read the full history of the Playboy Legacy Collection