

Kristy Garrett moves like someone who has seen the world and liked most of it. Born in Tbilisi, raised in Russia, she has worked in every capital that counts. Paris took her first. Milan took her next. Then Miami, New York, and finally Los Angeles, where Playboy scouts found her and offered her the last nude centerfold the magazine would ever print. She accepted without hesitation. The job was hers. She is direct about what turns her on. "Being sexy," she says, "means staying yourself. Be elegant if you like. Be wild. Steal a man’s swagger for a night. You still leave the room as a woman." That same honesty drew her to photographer Sasha Eisenman. He shoots bodies the way they actually look, and that suited her. When the issue hit stands in February 2016, she felt the weight of it. "I’m the final nude Playmate," she says. "That puts me in American history, and it feels right." She speaks about the country the way people do when they have chosen it. Here, she explains, a woman can strip down to who she really is and still be respected for it. She carries the distinction without fuss. The pictures are already on the page; the rest is whatever she decides to do next.

Kristy Garrett moves like someone who has seen the world and liked most of it. Born in Tbilisi, raised in Russia, she has worked in every capital that counts. Paris took her first. Milan took her next. Then Miami, New York, and finally Los Angeles, where Playboy scouts found her and offered her the last nude centerfold the magazine would ever print. She accepted without hesitation. The job was hers. She is direct about what turns her on. "Being sexy," she says, "means staying yourself. Be elegant if you like. Be wild. Steal a man’s swagger for a night. You still leave the room as a woman." That same honesty drew her to photographer Sasha Eisenman. He shoots bodies the way they actually look, and that suited her. When the issue hit stands in February 2016, she felt the weight of it. "I’m the final nude Playmate," she says. "That puts me in American history, and it feels right." She speaks about the country the way people do when they have chosen it. Here, she explains, a woman can strip down to who she really is and still be respected for it. She carries the distinction without fuss. The pictures are already on the page; the rest is whatever she decides to do next.