Why We Love Tilda Swinton

Because she doesn’t mind going all the way when it comes to her films and her fashion choices. Because her long, lean frame and her androgynous beauty looks ethereal, otherworldly, like something from the future. Because she’s a fashion designer’s dream, which is why she has been a muse to everyone from Haider Ackerman to Phoebe Philio to Raf Simons. Because she doesn’t mind stripping naked on set (Only Loves Left Alive) or looking ugly (Snowpiercer) or looking old (The Grand Budapest)— and that’s only in the last few years. Because she turns 54 today and her long steady boyfriend Sandro Kopp is 36, hot and madly in love with her.