Kate Moss's Playboy cover confirmed

When Top Models do Playboy.. Are you with, or are you against?

The fashion world's worst kept secret has been confirmed: Kate Moss will cover the 60th anniversary issue of Playboy, complete with iconic bunny ears.

The landmark issue will hit shelves in December 2013, a month before Moss will celebrate her 40th birthday.

The news was confirmed by the publication's editorial director, Jimmy Jellinek, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times .

"This is a massive global brand," he said. "You need a global icon in order to celebrate that - that was the impetus. You're talking about the face of Burberry, the biggest supermodel in the world on the cover of Playboy . She's the perfect partner for us to help launch the next 60 years."

The world's most in-demand male model

As the world's most in-demand male model, David Gandy is constantly on the move. 

David Gandy: "I used to go economy, which was tough because I'm 6ft 3. But that's my life and it always has been." Photo: Lorenzo Agius

The first thing you notice about David Gandy is that he is startlingly handsome. The second thing is that he's actually quite shy, which is endearing, and not what you'd expect from a man who shot to fame by cavorting around in unfeasibly tiny white trunks in Dolce & Gabbana's now-iconic 2007 Light Blue men's fragrance ad.

Photo: Lorenzo Agius

This 32-year-old from Billericay in Essex is now said to be the world's highest-paid male model, and was the only man in the line-up of British supermodels who strutted their stuff during the closing ceremony of the London Olympics. 'It was lovely to be represented,' he says. 'England isn't the best at everything, but with fashion, we are pretty much up there. We have so many iconic fashion brands, and the girls here from Kate and Naomi to Lily are the top in the world. We should shout about that.'

Gandy was born in Essex, of working-class parents who built up successful businesses, first in freight, then in property. They too are keen travellers, and used holidays as a way of educating David and his sister, Claire, who now lives in Spain. 'We've been on float-planes to see the brown bears in Alaska, we've been to see the Amazon rainforest, to the Galapagos Islands. My dad thinks he's David Attenborough II, really.'

The Most Followed Models on Social Media

Tyra Banks is the most followed model on social media.

Modelinia did some number-crunching and found that Banks came top with nearly 11.3 million followers on Twitter and Facebook combined, and over 1.2 million on Instagram - rather handy for plugging a product or two: "Happy February!!! Beauty is in the SMIZE of the beholder. Smize Yourself! for iOS in the App store now," reads her Twitter profile.

TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM: THE TOP TEN 

1) Tyra Banks 11,277,305 followers total 

2) Adriana Lima 3,465,472 followers total 

3) Heidi Klum 2,870,248 followers total 

4) Miranda Kerr 2,701,525 followers total 

5) Gisele Bündchen 2,421,171 followers total 

6) Cindy Crawford 1,322,443 followers total 

7) Kate Upton 1,189,004 followers total 

8) Alessandra Ambrosio 1,161,765 followers total 

9) Irina Shayk 891,235 followers total 

10) Coco Rocha 798,138 followers total

INSTAGRAM: THE TOP FIVE 

1) Tyra Banks 1,256,594 followers 

2) Miranda Kerr 1,119,698 followers 

3) Cara Delevingne 797,727 followers 

4) Alessandra Ambrosio 485,049 followers 

5) Bar Refaeli 471,954 followers

Tom Ford's Advice for Gisele When She Stops Being Hot

Tom Brady covers VMAN‘s fall issue–and while the accompanying interview and editorial focus on New Englands Patriot quarterback and his growing family with supermodel wife Gisele, it’s what Brady’s interviewer Tom Ford had to say that really caught our attention.

While the two Toms are discussing Gisele’s work as a model, Ford says, “[Modeling] is a horrible job. I feel really sorry for models. I’m serious. It’s a horrible job. They get rejected and treated like they’re not even people.” Ford is not one to sugarcoat.

But wait, there’s more!

Ford then offered up some nice and encouraging advice to Brady’s 32-year-old supermodel (and officially pregnant!) wife:

“This sounds negative, but when you’re considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, it’s very, very hard when that starts to slip away. It’s hard to feel good about yourself when people react to you differently. And, Gisele, I hope you’re not reading this, because it’s going to sound so negative but I know through some of my best friends who are really famous actresses–I’m not going to mention their names–who were at one point considered to be among the most beautiful women in the world at different periods of time, and how hard it is for them emotionally. So I hope Gisele is prepared for that, because it’s so difficult.”

And, just for fun, here is one of the more awkward moments in the interview:

Brady: By the way, how many times?

Ford: Say that again?

Brady: How many times have you worked with [Gisele].

Ford: Oh God! I thought you meant how many times did I sleep with her. I was about to say ‘Never.’ You sounded so tough.

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