Of course, the interweb has made it easy for any connoisseur of vintage Playboy spreads to amass a top-notch photography collection that's only limited by the amount of free space on a hard drive. But for those collectors who want something a little more permanent—and have several thousand dollars to spare—Hef and company introduced the Playboy Legacy Collection at the Cannes International Film Festival last week. The collection consists of 48 gallery-quality images representing the "visual history and impact of the magazine" from Tom Kelley's classic 1953 shot of Marilyn Monroe to Pamela Anderson as seen by David LaChapelle and are available individually, in three 16-photo sets, or as one 48-piece Gold Edition which also includes five music CDs, a DVD set, a book, a replica of an original Playboy Club key, and an invitation to an exclusive weekend party at the Playboy Mansion to celebrate the launch of the collection ... all for the low price of $85,000. (Which means that we'll be able to afford a copy circa 2148, given our current rate of savings and assuming they'll be any copies left by then. In the meantime, though, there's still the interweb.)

· The Playboy Legacy Collection (playboylegacycollection.com)
· "Playboy Collection at Cannes FF" (xfanz.com/news)

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