I think we’ve discussed the magazine CANDY before. Like, James Franco was on the cover once? Yes. It’s a magazine for (and done by) transgendered individuals, with pictorials devoted to… well, you can guess. I’m not judging anything, seriously. This magazine is not for me, so I don’t have a real opinion on the content. Only this: CAN YOU F–KING BELIEVE THIS IS TILDA SWINTON????? OMG.
If you were going to guess the “star” of this pictorial, who would you have guessed before even considering Tilda Swinton? I have a list.
1. Florence Welch.
2. David Bowie.
3. Cher.
4. Lady Gaga.
5. A random drag-queen that Candy picked up at a LGBT Spelling Bee.
6. Adele.
7. CHER?!
8. Chaz Bono.
9. Any of the contestants of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
10. RuPaul.
The fact that it’s Tilda, and that she wore these wigs and had her makeup done (by drag queens) and wore these clothes… does it make you love her more? In my case… kind of. She really is a chameleon, isn’t she? Amazing.
Candy Magazine photos courtesy of The Fashion Spot.
Wow! Love her! She has the best complexion ever!
wow amazing pictures! She does have amazing skin and figure.
I guess I’m showing my age by thinking it was a heavily tweaked Lesley-Anne Warren.
thank you! that’s who I was thinking but couldn’t remember her name to save my life.. and I just dated myself right along with you.
Now that you say that I dosed Leslie Ann Warren…never realized they shared the same striking features.
I wanted to be her as Cinderella SO bad when I was a kid. She smiled when she sang.
Dude, L-A W was my first girl-crush. I thought she was sooooo beautiful.
(awesome)
Totally thought it was LAW!! Her face and body is like a palet. Just wow!
I love love Tilda, but here I don’t think it’s her credit, it’s photoshop + dragqueen makeup.
You have to admit she’s a great model though and has killer lines.
I thought it was Cate Blanchett at first channeling a dramatic Marlene Dietrich.
But Tilda, LOVE HER! And that bone structure if f-cking amazing on so many levels.
Actually, The Swinton was my first guess! Love her!!
Ditto!
Mine too!
My first thought too.
Same. I doubt I would have recognized her if you used one of the dark haired pictures of her to base our guess off of though.
Me too! I think she looks amazing. If any woman can carry these looks off, it’s Tilda. Love her.
ditto. She’s a f–king goddess.
I’d love it if she pulled out the stops like this on a red carpet sometime. shock ’em with eye makeup…….would be fun to see.
But there’s no mistaking that nose/mouth combo — Swinton all the way.
Yep! She was my first and only guess.
never would have guessed her..
I still can’t believe it’s her. I’m gobsmacked.
Florence Welch, for sure. wow.
love it especially the one in the black wig. very sofia loren. gorgeous
yes! the 4th photo with the big black wig is amazing!
oh, how i love Swinton…
LOL@Chaz Bono! Tilda looks ahmazing!
I thought it was Anjelica Huston. Cool pictorial, though.
Yeah I thought it was AH too
Tilda is glorious no matter what she does. Stunningly beautiful in a most unconventional way. Nothing but love for her.
In the 3rd picture she actually looks like Leslie Ann Warren:
http://www.celebs101.com/gallery/Lesley_Ann_Warren/68921/lesley_ann_warren_photo_3.jpg
Oh I miss her! Remember her part in Victor/Victoria? hilarious!
11. Madonna
I love the photos, especially the fourth one.
This woman is effin fantastic. Period. End of story.
+1
I thought this was Susan Sarandon for a minute.
lol
I thought it was Susan Sarandon as well, then I looked at the mouth area and guessed Tilda.
Tilda Swinton is boss. Full stop.
Also thought Sarandon.
Yes, that was my guess…SS with a heavy dose of Photoshop.
I thought SS as well
I thought Angelica Houston or Tilda Swinton (actress) or Adrien Brody (male) before I opened article!!!
I just saw “We Need To Talk About Kevin”. She is definitely one of the greatest actresses of all time.
Oh, wow, that book was amazing. How was the movie?
Scenes from the movie are still haunting me and my husband for days. She’s also amazing in Orlando and the costumes are ridiculously sublime.
Wow. Amazing! She just has it, whatever it is.
Annie Lenox
She’s absolf–kinglutely amazing.
My guess was a PS’ed Glenn Close. Thin lips.
ah, Tilda! i thought it was carrot top, oh well.
Love the photos. The lighting is great!
(agreed – yummy shots)
I love her, she is just so awesome
HA ! I guessed it at first glance….but then I had caught an old movie of hers on Netflix and knew she could look very different with makeup.
OMFG ! That’s really amazing! She really can be just anything..wow..
Bland faced android empty of emotion, often a genderless dresser.. Katherine Mathilda with her big blue albino eyes hides the greatest mysteries..
Really, really stunning.
I thought it was Jimmy Fallon! LOL
Love Tilda! She makes me think of Jean Marsh in these photos. Return to Oz anyone?
My guess was Janet Jackson!
Holy crap! I love Tilda, but had to open the article to see who it was! She really is a chameleon, for sure. Great pics!
She creeps me out. Shes got sci-fi beauty.
So she doesn’t have to be homely as a dog’s bottom?
she looks like a young Leslie-Anne Warren (showing my age)
Must be my age too!
Does that name say CINDERELLA to you?
Ten minutes ago I saw you, I looked up when you came through the door….
OK, maybe you didn’t love that movie as much as I did.
My head started reeling you gave me the feeling the room had no ceiling or floor. Ten minutes ago I met you and we murmered our how do you dos. I wanted to ring out the bells and fling out my arms and to sing out the news.
Prince: I have found her, she’s an angel…”
OMG! That song is ingrained in my brain. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. 😀
If you get tired of that one you can move on to:
Do I want you because you’re wonderful…
I loved that movie so much when I was a little girl but then I rented it for my own daughter and about rolled off the couch laughing about how hokey the settings were. Still loved the actors though.
Or did love them until I found out the beautiful prince ended up as that fat jerky Quartermaine guy on some soap opera. How the mighty are fallen….sigh.
I LOVED LOVED LOVED THAT MOVIE…In my own little corner in my own little chair, I can be whatever I want to be…
LOL just seeing your remarks now, yep Cinderella!
I need this magazine. She looks so amazing!
i would have gone with “totally amazing random drag queen”. great pictures!
I think she looks stunning!
Wow! A woman dressed as a woman!(?) I don’t get it. Or is it a dis (although nobody’s offended) about how Tilda is so man-like that decking her out in over-the-top glamwear (long curly wig, fake lashes and other stage makeup, vampy clothes) is similar to being a biological male presenting themselves to the world as female. ?????? I’ve not seen any Tilda movies (so that MUST be why I’m missing all the excitement) -but I’m over her already!
+1
Ever heard of femme drag?
Jesus Minty Christ She Is AMAZING!
You cannot mistake that bone structure for anyone but Tilda from the first photo. Plus the red hair was a dead give away. Now if you have shown her in the last set of photos I would have been stumped.
She looks amazing by the way.
michelle pfeiffer
That was my guess, too!
I thought it was Karen Elson!
Wow! I guessed it right off the bat before I scrolled down…I’m really surprised! She looks so fierce here!
I thought it was William Dafoe.
I LOVE DRAG QUEEN GLAMOUR
They’re obviously lying to us, so…
I guessed Susan Surandon after staring at it for far too long.
I’ve always loved this beautiful alien queen, but holy cats!! This shoot just makes me so … happy, giddy, excited, and more in love with her! I’m not just fangirling here, I mean, I love that she just transforms and we have no idea who she is… Love it!!
Amazing! That woman has the most magnificent bone structure. I honestly think that she’s the most versatile and one of the most talented actresses out there.
I thought the actress looked like a mixture of Cher and Susan Sarandon.
I thought the actress looked like a mixture of Cher and Susan Sarandon. Never would have guessed that is Tilda Swinton, but after seeing her name I recognized her lips and nose shape. lol
I guessed right! You could tell by the nose and cheekbones.
Wow! These are great pics. Not boring, beautiful…Vogue should take note.
great i love this cover
BOW TO THE GODDESS !!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, put some makeup on her and she looks like that gorgeous model Carmen Dell’Orefice. The lady is 80 and I would take her looks over mine any day! Tilda looks just like her.
God. She has such astounding versatility. There is something about her transcendent androgyny that makes me want to drink in her presence.
Love this woman. I discovered her over a decade ago in this small indie film that she did called Female Perversions, and I’ve been hooked ever since. She restores my faith in the possibility of legitimate creativity in the film industry.
I think I’m going to go out and snag a copy for myself, and I don’t typically buy mags.
ooh I love the funky fro one.
I was torn between Blanchett and Swinton. The cheekbones!
Okay, don’t everyone hate me…but I don’t get all the fawning over Tilda…she is a good actress…but she is NOT attractive and she is very odd…don’t get me wrong, I don’t not like her, but just don’t get all the amazement! sorry…
I think in a world that adores the talentless and superficial (Kardashians), it’s nice to see someone was has talent and doesn’t rely on her looks or fitting into a particular mold. The amazement comes from her doing these pics that are so unlike her, yet she rocked them without looking awkward and out of place. She’s a talented woman.
rockin’ the rolls royce hood ornament look… have loved her since Orlando came out and i was five.
I saw it 🙂 I guessed it right after clicking the banner pic. 🙂
Hmmm- don’t like it. She doesn’t look enough like herself. If you had a chance to photograph the Swinton, would you do this?
OMG I said Tilda the first pic -u can’t miss that nose! Shes so awesome.
My first guess was Travolta going out in disguise…
So I’m the only one who thought it was Michael Caine?
I thought it was pretty obvious that it was Tilda.
Totally Florence Welch *looks away*
My first thought was heavily ‘shopped Angelica Huston because of the lip/cheek proportions. I love her for being out there, but I how amazing would Tilda look in some of this eye makeup for an event?
I thought it was Florence Welch; never would have guessed Tila Swinton. But, she does have gorgeous features and skin so not surprised she can look so hot.
Wow
I got Tilda right off the bat. Not gonna lie.
Just saw the other pictures … MY GOD. Thank you for sharing this. This woman is amazing.
Oh, my goodness, this woman has the most incredible bone structure ever. And her complexion is constant motivation to use lots of sunscreen!
My guesses were: Faye Dunaway or Tim Curry.
Love the concept. Normally, I don’t like making the covergirl unrecognizable and styled like a dead superstar. But this is different. Loving the Amy Winehouse inspired beehive look.
Wow! Now I guess every self-respecting drag queen can stick these photos on her dressing-room mirror and pray every day that she will one day look as pretty as this!!! Fa-a-aabulous!
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE TILDA!
I am absolutely queening out over this.