The Feb. The marketing of fashion has had little do with clothes for a long time, after all. At play instead is a commercialism that is both creepier and more compelling: a picture of a nude Lindsay Lohan, less than a year out of her third go at rehab. The image is causing a ruckus in the blogosphere, and not because her nipples can be ogled through the thin triangle of pink chiffon she clasps with her mouth like a schnauzer. To make the echo that much more macabre, Mr. Stern has taken these pictures as well.

The magazine's site even went down Monday because of all the traffic. Now, as traffic has no doubt subsided since Monday, they've released five more shots, like the one below, as bonus outtakes. Find the rest of the new pictures here , photos For more information on the shoot, Celebitchy has comparisons between the Lindsay Lohan nude shots and the Marilyn Monroe nude shots. Click the following link to read Dina Lohan's impressions of the Lindsay Lohan nude shots and click the following link for higher resolution versions of the Lindsay Lohan nude shots. US Edition U.

In the issue of New York magazine on sale Monday, the year-old star of "Mean Girls" and "Freaky Friday" poses nude for photographer Bert Stern in a recreation of one of Monroe's most famous photo shoots, done shortly before she died. Stern photographed Monroe in at the Hotel Bel-Air in California, six weeks before she was found dead from an overdose of barbiturates. Those images for Vogue magazine feature Monroe in next to nothing, posing nude with some scarves and jewelry as her accessories and sipping champagne. Stern recreated those images with Lohan this month, at the same hotel, with Lohan wearing a blond wig and not much else. In the essay accompanying the photos, Lohan, who admitted to a serious interest in Monroe, said deciding to do the photo shoot was easy.

When we got a single copy of this week's New York magazine, featuring a naked Lindsay Lohan re-creating iconic shots from Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot, it got passed around the office like contraband, causing groups of us to stand around and discuss whether it was a good career move, how much she did or didn't look like Marilyn, and, mostly, if those bare boobs are real or fake. Listen in:. She isn't an icon.