Tilda Swinton, or how to flow towards originality

Tilda Swinton, or how to flow towards originality

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Tilda Swinton: un cóctel inmejorable de androginia, piel perfecta y una escueta melena platino la convirtió en la estrella ‘indie’ más deseada de Hollywood.

By Paloma Abad

Tilda Swinton (London, 1960) has never wanted to be like others.With almost 1.80 tall (since the age of 13) and some factions closer to the Scottish aristocracy of the 16th century than to the beauty standards of the XXI, a solid career in the cinema has been worked in the cinema masterfully combining independent projects with great blockbusters("I have not entered the system and it has not caused me damage.I'm a tourist in Hollywood.It is a very interesting place to visit, but I am from another planet, "I would say once) and flowing between genres.Even transforming in angels, who lack idem.

In 2009, the year he became Emma Rechi for I am the love, by Luca Guadagnino (just after incarnating Elizabeth Abbott in the curious case of Benjamin Button, so justifying that he mixes great successes with others of vocationmore intellectual) spoke with Vera von Kreutzbruck, for The Wip, when he starred in Orlando, in 1992, under Sally Potter's orders.“As with any other possibility of transformation, we can play with the genre.My idea of identity is that I am not sure that there is really.I have turned this idea in a tangential way from Orlando and other works that I have done, in which I have played with the idea of a transformative genre.For example, when you become a mother, do you lose everything?Can you really maintain an identity with multiple faces?The whole idea of transformation is the core of what interests me as an actress, including the gender idea.It is a very personal matter.I can say it categorically, just as Orlando does it in the film: I'm probably a woman ".Probably?The journalist replied.“I don't know if I can say that I was once a girl, I was quite a small for a long time.I don't know, who knows?Change, "defended the interpreter.In that same interview, the actress explained why many times, in her career, she has played men."It seems to me a very natural game.I enjoy walking through the tightrope of identity, sexual identity, gender identity.And I'm happy to keep doing it ".

Indeed, its Androginia is known in its industry, and also in fashion, which celebrates that chameleonic style as a treasure to protect.In 2008 he was the protagonist of the cover of L'Oomo Vogue, an occasion that years later Franca Sozzani, the late director of the header would remember with love, explaining that Tilda had confessed during the shooting that he looked like his father."For me is modern beauty.Generally, the actors dress very badly, but she has a lot of style.When you see it at festivals, you can't help looking at it.When you enter a room, you notice.It has a presence, "described the Italian.

Tilda Swinton, o cómo fluir hacia la originalidad

This month, in the British edition of Vogue, Swinton has given an interview in which he has explained, following his friendship with the late experimental director Derek Jarman (who was actually his mentor in this cinema), whose love for thesexuality and gender is evident in its filmography, which is what is queer for it.“For me it is very clear that queer, at least for me, has really to do with sensitivity.I've always felt queer.I was just looking for my queer circus, and I found it.Once I have found it, it's my world.Now I have a family with Wes Anderson, another with Bong Joon-Ho, another with Jim Jarmusch, another with Luca Guadagnino, with Lynne Ramsay, with Joanna Hogg ....".They are just some of the directors with whom you enjoy working the most.Because, to be a tourist in Hollywood, you have to feel good settled in other parts.

But, Let's Get Physical, which Dua Lipa would say.In addition to the question of gender and Androginia, everyone knows it for luminosity of its face, amplified by its silver bob cut (or redhead, depending on the occasion).Hydration, for her, is fundamental (she has ever talked about a Själ serum that she loved to use).In addition, in most occasions, Tilda Swinton renounces makeup to take a run -free skin, acne, rosacea or ... defects, for the case, for the case.Even so, in 2015 he signed as an ambassador to the makeup firm Nars.He had just met the makeup artist and loved him, so why not?For the campaign, she converted her face in a canvas that could well have been painted with black strokes by Hans Melming or Jan van Eyck."I have never worried my appearance especially. Tenía esta altura a los 13 años, y, sabes, lo que puedo hacer es limitado", aseguraba entonces, antes de explicar que en cuestión de maquillaje, “una cantidad pequeña puede lograr un gran resultado". En 2015, tras el estreno de Y de repente tú, aquel blockbuster en el que aparecía maquillada y con melena larga, alegaba que todo lo que hacía falta para convertirla en irreconocible era “un montón de maquillaje, un bronceado tipo tandoori y una peluca".

The hair, that platinum bob that makes it eccentric and iconic in equal parts, is the work of the famous Sam McKnight, which was the first to shave the sides in the early two.“But now is Odile Gilbert, blessed, the one that cuts it more often. Es como podar un arbusto o un animal muy peludo", comentaba la actriz hace varios años.From time to time, it is allowed to grow, but never more than ten centimeters.Maybe it is that clean canvas that allows you to mimic so precisely in the characters you interpret.Change capillary style, for her, is to change almost human being.

Her great beauty icons are her grandmother, her children, Patti Smith ("She is both princess and prince.I loved her in Caravaggio and Orlando.It may seem tysical and at the same time comic, "said Swinton's artist), Delphine Seyrig and David Bowie, whom he reinterpreted in Vogue Italy in 2003.When stylist Edward Enninful (current director of Vogue for the European market) he taught his book to Bowie himself and he saw the shooting with Tilda, said he did not remember when he had taken those photos.“I was stunned.He could not believe how much they looked like, "said Enninful in Another Magazine once.Tilda Swinton is all that she wants to be and is herself at the same time.Not many artists can say that.

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