Emma Watson has had the contents of a giant tube of toothpaste squeezed out onto her top half in decorative loops - and she has managed to keep a straight face long enough for a picture to be taken. That’s more than I could manage.
The photo might be Art but it is, at the same time, an image that partly reveals a female erogenous zone and as such it will inevitably be at least mildly titillating to a certain section of the populace. (I doubt that Emma was thinking about it in this way though.)
I’ve been trying to think of a male equivalent to Emma - an obviously good-looking high-profile individual who wants to be taken seriously on the world stage but who might be tripped up by their own beauty.
Justin Trudeau comes to mind.
Here he is in his youth doing the demi-boob pose. He has had some difficulty rising above his pretty boy image yet still seems to be a sucker for a good photo op, even now that he’s running a country.
Of course, it’s not quite the same. Male breasts are less taboo – or at least this has been the case historically so there is less of a sense of being unusually exposed. And he is, moreover, in a position of real influence. As a consequence, his publicity shots seem more peripheral to who he is and less likely to swamp his identity.