Esquire's Blast from the Past

Esquire‘s May 2008 cover, featuring Fabrizio Ferri‘s photograph of Jessica Simpson in mid-shave, is an homage to designer George Lois‘s March 1965 cover of Italian actress Virna Lisi similarly engaged, coiffed, and thickly eyelinered. (Look closely and you’ll note that both blondes wield a Gillette Superspeed razor, although Simpson’s vintage model had to be tracked down on eBay.) It’s Esquire‘s second iconic cover recreation as part of its 75th anniversary celebration (the first, in February, involved a