Photo: Steven Klein for i-D
“Big first day as a 17-year-old!” his mother, 47, wrote on Instagram. “So proud.”
The image is part of a series of five different covers fori-D’s Spring 2022 issue, titled “Out of Body.” (Paloma Elsesser also appears in the issue, with more cover stars to be announced this week.)
Steven Klein for i-D
“It was one of my first ever shoots – a proper shoot!” Cruz says of posing for the pictures after years of non-professional practice while on vacation with his mother. “Every holiday we go on, my mum takes hundreds of pictures!” he says. “It’s really annoying … but I think that’s taught me quite a lot!”
He’s got a few tattoos, too, including a butterfly above his knee.
Citing Oasis,UsherandBeyoncéas influences, Cruz is learning to play guitar, piano, drums and mandolin.
“I don’t think you ever stop learning, but I’m taking my time seeing what happens,” he says, adding that he’s just focused now on “making the music I love” in Los Angeles, London and Miami studios with various producers helping create songs based on “personal experiences, real experiences.”
source: people.com
