Kristen's Interview Magazine Cover on TIME's Top 10 List

Kristen Stewart's Interview magazine cover was voted one of TIME Magazine's Top 10 Magazine Covers:

This is a hauntingly beautiful rendition of a visual pun — allusion meets illusion.

The model for Interview's 40th anniversary issue is actress Kristen Stewart, who currently stars in the monster hit Twilight series. Using her as the model is a masterstroke of celebrity-cover timing, perfectly executed.

The image is two photos — if you pull back, you can see her holding over her own face a same-scale, torn black-and-white photo of her, whose only color is in her blood-red lips. The ghoulish makeup is perfectly in keeping with current fashion photography, and it serves the dual purpose of enhancing the metaphor while making her look drop-dead beautiful.

A final touch: the allusion gets heightened by more blood, this time on the fanglike letter I in the logo. That's why the lady is a vamp!

Pretty sweet to be a part of TIME's The Top 10 Everything of 2009 List!

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