Lindsay Lohan Muse Photos: Video to Premiere Today

Lindsay Lohan is the newest risque cover girl photographed for Muse, an Italian fashion magazine. There is to be a video to go along with the starlet's bold, bare all, career move. The Muse cover photo shows Lohan, shirt open, with the words "Lindsay Exposed" covering any titillating tidbits. While the Muse photos are readily available online, the video of Lohan's shoot will not be released until Tuesday, December 8th.

Some of the photographs can be found on IMeanWhat.com. Lohan is shown nude in some of the photographs, wearing only a pretty boy toy and a lovely lady. Two outfits she is wearing in the photos are a lacy black body suit and short, edgy, black dress. One photo shows Lohan's bare backside, while a nipple 'slips' out in another. One fun photograph has Lohan and the female model drawing on the bare back of the nude male model. Surprisingly, since she has been known to avoid this, Lohan is also shown smoking.

The video of this magazine shoot is to premiere on YouTube. The user name given is MuseLindsayLohan. It will be interesting to see if the video contains behind the scenes footage of Lohan or is merely a slide show of the photographs. Either way, it is not surprising that the 23 year old actress was comfortable being on film.

The inspiration behind the Lindsay Lohan Muse pictorial is the 1994 Annie Leibovitz photographs of supermodel Kate Moss and actor Johnny Depp. These photos were taken at a New York hotel. The photograph I remember shows a black clothed Johnny Depp covering a nude Kate Moss, who is laying on a bed. A similar photograph in Lindsay Lohan's Muse session has her playing Kate Moss' role.

Makeup and hair styling are also an indicator that Lohan is playing the part of Kate Moss, although in different decades. The washed-out, fiery-eyed makeup is a blatant nod to heroin chic, a 90's style that made Moss a fashion icon. The bleached blond hair, while admittedly a look Lohan has rocked for a minute, is recent trend often attributed to the supermodel.

Depp was recently named the Sexiest Man Alive, by People Magazine. Perhaps Lohan is hoping to be able to stabilize her floundering career, by following in his footsteps.

The photographer of Lindsay Lohan's Muse photo session is Yu Tsai. Tsai's website also lists himself as the director of the video. Videography is credited to Sergio Bautista, for 88phases.com.

Sources:

http://www.yutsai.com/lindsaylohan/

http://imeanwhat.com/

http://www.mdolla.com/2008/04/annie-leibovitz-portraits-21-photos.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaAm-nVXA2A

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20148751,00.html