Lui Magazine, Part IV: Florence Guériin

Actress Florence Guérin (sometimes Florence Nicolas) has been around for more than 25 years, appearing topless or nude in a variety of French films and television productions. For 12 francs you could see her in Lui Magazine too:

Lui Magazine, Part III: Pageant Queens, Mothers and Daughters, and the Truth About Frankenstein

You're wondering how that subject line is going to play out, aren't you? No? Well read on anyway. It won't take long.

In the '80s, Lui Magazine covered a lot of ground. Miss France 1985, Suzanne Iskandar, went on to get a perm and become Miss Universe...

A couple of years earlier, French actress Bernadette Lafont appeared on the cover with her two daughters. The blonde was Pauline Lafont, a successful actress in her own right who died in a hiking accident when she was about 25 years old. A real loss:


And just for those who were wondering, this issue included an article titled The Truth About Frankenstein:

The Eyebrow Ads of 1991

Thanks to our friends at Found in Mom's Basement, we don't have to volunteer at the Boy Scout Recycling Drive anymore to see awesome eyebrows in print ads from women's magazines. Here's proof!



Of course, one great thing about the Recycling Drive was sorting the publications into categories: Catalogs, Regular Magazines, and Porn. So for those of you pining for the latter, here's a hit:


Scroll-down explanatory plaque: The cover girl on this 1990 copy of Lui is Léonor Scherrer, daughter of fashion designer Jean-Louis Scherrer .

Lui Magazine, Part II: Raquel Welch

The Fourth of Juillet is just around the corner, so why not close out the month of June with some patriotic stylings from Raquel Welch by way of France (they have red, white and blue too, you know):


Scroll-down bonus: Bottom-boob!

If It's French, It Must Be Classy: Lui Magazine, Part I

Back in the mid-1960s, red-blooded American males had been getting off on Playboy centerfo– uh, articles, for about a decade. But even the monthly installments weren't enough to satisfy the demand for naked women, while we sat around waiting for the interblags to be invented.

France to the rescue! The French were the original continental glossy-stock pornographers, and one of their more recent products at the time was Lui: Le Magazine de L'Homme Moderne. Its cousin, Oui, eventually found its way to American shores. With a French name, it was sure to be a winner.

Sometimes, Lui was a winner too – because of the eyebrows sported by its cover girls. Here's the first installment of a small collection of them, these ones from 1966–7: