Kim Novak and Yoko Ono look breathtaking on new collector’s issues of Esqure magazine to mark the publication’s 90th anniversary.
The men’s magazine is celebrating its milestone birthday by featuring some notabe stars who have graced the cover in years past.
On one cover, Hollywood star Kim Novak, 90, looked incredible in what appeared to be a pink tasselled coat while lying on a bed.
Fixing the camera with a sultry stare, the star’s blonde locks were in a vintage style while she wore a light palette of makeup.
Yoko’s cover fetured a simple black and white image of the star, 90, staring serenly at the camera in a small bedroom.
Stunning: Kim Novak looked breathtaking on a new collector’s issue of Esqure magazine to mark the publication’s 90th anniversary
Vintage: Yoko Ono’s cover fetured a simple black and white image of the star, 90, staring serenly at the camera in a small bedroom
The magazine has also created a new cover featuring an image of a young Clint Eastwood shirtless while using a payphone.
The fourth cover features Michael Caine in another black and white image of the star throwing a punch while looking dapper in a coat.
It comes after Kim opened up about her decision to leave Hollywood after strarring in films like Vertigo and Of Human Bondage.
‘I had to leave to survive,’ she told the outlet. ‘I lost a sense of who I truly was and what I stood for.’
‘I fought all the time back in Hollywood to keep my identity so you do whatever you have to do to hold on to who you are and what you stand for.’
And fight she did, in a time when it was even more difficult for a woman to be heard in Hollywood than it is today.
One of the actress-turned-painter’s first points of contention at the time was her name.
‘I was both dazzled and disturbed to see me being packaged as a Hollywood sex symbol,’ Novak writes in the introduction to her new book.
Suave: The magazine has also created a new cover featuring an image of a young Clint Eastwood shirtless while using a payphone
Dapper: The fourth cover features Michael Caine in another black and white image of the star throwing a punch while looking dapper in a coat
‘However, I did win my fight over identity. I wouldn’t allow [then-Columbia Pictures chief] Harry Cohn to take my bohemian roots away by denying me my family name. Novak. I stood my ground and won my first major battle,’ the star, born Marilyn Pauline Novak, continued.
Novak burst onto the scene in Hollywood in the early ’50s, in films such as 1954’s Phffft opposite Jack Lemmon, Picnic the following year with William Holden, and 1957’s Pal Joey with Frank Sinatra.
But it was two films with Hollywood megastar Jimmy Stewart in 1958 – Bell Book and Candle and especially Vertigo – that would make Kim a household name.
‘There was constant pressure to be seen and not heard,’ she wrote, ‘especially if you had a pretty face.
‘In Hollywood a lot of people assume who you are, because of the character you play, but also just because of who they expect you to be, how they expect you to dress,’ she said.
Candid: It comes after Kim opened up about her decision to leave Hollywood after strarring in films like Vertigo and Of Human Bondage, saying she lost a sense of who she was
‘I kept feeling like I was going deeper and deeper, lost in almost like a quicksand, where it’s swallowing you up, your own personality, and I’d started to wonder who I am,’ Novak explained. ‘I realized needed to save myself.’
And that was why the retired actress famously left Tinseltown and drove north, eventually moving to the Pacific coast of Oregon.
‘I needed the Pacific Ocean to inspire me, the animals, the beauty,’ the Chicago native said. ‘I wanted to live a normal life and a life with animals.’
Kim married her second husband Robert Malloy, an equine veterinarian whom she referred to as her ‘soul mate’, in 1976, and the pair remained together until his death in November 2020.
