Beyonce Rocked Her Photographer’s Jeans on the Cover of Her Iconic Album ‘Dangerously in Love’: Here’s Why
usmagazine.comBeyoncé took some unexpected style advice for the cover of her beloved debut album, Dangerously in Love. Markus Klinko, the photographer who snapped the memorable 2003 artwork, dished on how the singer’s iconic rhinestone top and low-rise jeans came to be during a Monday, June 19, interview with Insider .
Klinko explained that Beyoncé, now 41, was inspired by a diamond ad that starred Laetitia Casta and debuted in 2000.
In the campaign, Casta, 45, was covered in jewels while lounging on a crystal-adorned spider web. With that in mind, Beyoncé’s mom, Tina Knowles-Lawson, who worked as her daughter’s stylist at the time, bought a diamond top for the “Single Ladies” songstress to wear on the day of the shoot. “I brought it up to Beyoncé and I said, ‘Well, here you go.
That’s what we should do,’” Klinko recalled to Insider. To his surprise, however, Beyoncé wasn’t pleased. “She didn’t think it worked because her mom wanted to pair it with these long skirts,” Klinko explained, sharing that Beyonc é told him: “This is going to look very prom or red carpet and I don’t want to do that.” In response, Klinko offered Beyoncé the jeans he was wearing, insisting that they would give the sparkly top an eye-catching contrast. “Beyoncé said, ‘Well, we don’t have any denim.
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