Fashion
Published
Dec. 6, 2023, 9:51 a.m. ET
No pink scarf? No downside.
Taylor Swift is Time’s Person of the Year for 2023, however she’s not the one one fronting the journal’s latest subject: One of the celebrity’s three beloved cats, Benjamin Button, makes a cameo on one among Swift’s three covers.
Photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, the “Cruel Summer” songstress strikes a assured stance in a black Bardot bodysuit and Wolford tights alongside together with her go-to pink lipstick, the fluffy feline draped over her shoulders.
Van Lamsweerde instructed Time the charming snap was impressed by photographer Bill Hayward’s ’70s-era ebook “Cat People,” which options suave photographs of entertainers, writers and different professionals with their pets.
“The pictures are brilliant. It shows very well the relationship that people have with their cats. But at the same time, [shows] the way cats are kind of on their own — they’re a special breed of animal,” the famed vogue photog instructed the magazine.
“So I got a vintage copy of it for Taylor because I know she’s a major cat lover, and her cats travel with her. And I said, ‘You know, I’ve always wanted to do a picture like the one that’s on the cover of that book where the cat’s on the shoulder of the girl.’ It speaks to a sense of carrying everything on your shoulders but being defiant while doing so. And she agreed and that’s how that picture happened.”
Van Lamsweerde famous that the picture “really has everything: Her glamor [sic], her power, her sense of empathy of carrying the whole world on her shoulders,” including, “I felt that there is something there in her body position that’s very powerful and strong. Her expression and the way she looks has this old Hollywood glamor [sic] but underneath, there’s so much power in her stance. The way she has Benjamin on her shoulders is kind of like, ‘Yeah, I’m carrying you all.’”
Suffice to say, Swifties have been delighted to see their favourite ragdoll land his first high-fashion cowl.
“Thrilled Benjamin Button finally landed Purrson of the Year,” one tweeted; “when taylor swift said ‘wear you like a necklace’ she was talking about her cats apparently,” one other joked.
Cracked a 3rd of Swift’s different two well-known felines, “Meredith and Olivia Swift are silent amidst the reveal of Benjamin Button Swift’s feature on Taylor Swift’s cover shoot for TIME’s ‘Person Of The Year.’”
Meredith, Olivia: There’s all the time subsequent yr.
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