The calendar was shot in Miami’s Historic Virginia Key Beach Park by young American photographer Ethan James Green with stylist Tonne Goodman, a former fashion editor at US Vogue.
It was then presented at London’s Natural History Museum on Tuesday.
The 24 photos portray 12 talents of different ages, including Indian-American author and TV presenter Padma Lakshimi, 54, French film star Vincent Cassel, 57, trans US actor Hunter Schafer, 25, Italian singer Elodie, 34, and the 34-year-old photographer himself, whose nude photo represents the month of November.
The epitome of classic sexiness, which first appeared in 1964, the Pirelli calendar features an Elodie who has “an immediate freshness in exuding all that life we wanted our talents to express without clothes,” Green said.
Green also described the 2025 edition as “untraditional”.
“When I accepted to make it, I thought that Pirelli had a history I could interpret, because this calendar is a symbol of sensuality,” he explained.
“And at the same time [I thought I could] change it.”
Green described the images as “natural, raw, savage”.
The executive vice president of Pirelli, Marco Tronchetti Provera, said the 2025 edition is “nude and sensual” and does “not want to send messages”.
“Behind it, there is the absolute freedom of the artist so I wouldn’t be able to tell whether the sensuality of this new calendar is going backward or moving forward,” Tronchetti Provera told ANSA.
“Beauty has no gender nor age.
“It remains an artistic object and must be considered as such.”
ANSA
