Kristine Winder Bio
Kristine Winder was a Canadian actress, glamour and nude model. She was born on October 15, 1955, in Vancouver, Canada. Playboy named her its October 1977 Playmate at 21. Her appearance came during Playboy's 1970s print era, when the magazine reached the height of its mass-market influence.
Winder had natural breasts, brown eyes and brown hair. Her measurements are 34-25-34.
Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli and published under the pictorial title "Invitation to the Dance." Shot in a dance studio, the images favored long lines and poised movement—an inventory of gesture and silhouette that treated the body the way choreography treats music: as form in motion. Casilli’s framing and lighting gave the pictures an editorial calm that still reads as deliberate and, for the era, elegantly staged.
Ahead of publication she adopted a pseudonym in an attempt to keep the appearance from her father; the precaution proved only partly effective. Once the issue reached newsstands, curiosity about the name began to ripple outward. People across North America sought the elusive "Kristine Winder," and several Vancouver families who bore the surname found themselves on the receiving end of intrusive attention, including obscene phone calls.
Winder retreated from the spotlight afterward, and the spread quietly endures as a carefully composed study of dance and glamour. It remains, in short, both a pictorial centered on movement and a small case study in how magazine visibility could overflow the frame and touch private lives.
