Eva Mendes | Ellen von Unwerth | Jane Final 2007

Bert Stern’s Marilyn Monroe “last sitting” flower photos inspired the Ellen von Unwerth and Eva Mendes collaboration for the last issue of Jane Magazine in 2007. Eva Mendes is lusciously delectable, sensually alluring with a beautiful and not decadent eroticism.

Many have said that this editorial positioning for Jane — clearly one based on a Smart Sensuality vision of women — came too late and could have saved the magazine. Just as Marilyn Monroe died prematurely, perhaps Jane magazine did, too. Then again, perhaps Jane should have cast a wider net into the responsive psyches of older women just waiting for a smart, sassy women’s magazine to claim them.

The original inspiration: Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern.