Lacey Banghard in Nuts Magazine
Lacey Banghard appears in a glamour feature for Nuts, the British men’s weekly.
Nuts was a weekly, and that single fact shaped everything about how it treated its models. Where a monthly could spend weeks planning a feature, Nuts had to fill its pages every seven days, and it did so with a steady stream of glamour shoots alongside sport, cars and jokes. A feature in Nuts put a model in front of a very large readership very quickly.
The weekly rhythm
Weekly glamour work favoured efficiency. Shoots were often done in the studio or at a nearby location, with a clear brief and a short turnaround. The style that came out of this was bright, direct and uncomplicated: strong lighting, simple sets, and an emphasis on the model’s personality, often backed up by a few lines of chatty copy alongside the pictures.
That same rhythm helped new names break through. A model who went down well with readers could be back in the magazine within weeks, and a run of appearances in Nuts was one of the surest routes to wider recognition, calendars and other work.
A recognisable name
Lacey Banghard became a familiar face to Nuts readers around this time, and this feature is one of the appearances that helped establish her. It sits comfortably within the house style of the magazine: confident, well lit and cheerful in tone.
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