'No matter what sort of tabloid-y thing people are going to try to pin on her, her position, her power, her career, outshines that,' says Selena Gomez. 'It's almost like: Don't mess with Taylor.' VFArchive
hen I arrive at London's Savoy hotel on a Friday morning in June, Taylor Swift greets me with a hug before I even properly introduce myself. I compliment Swift on her shimmery, skintight Saint Laurent gown, and she says, beaming,"They usually dress me up like a 12-year-old French boy. It's nice to be glamorous."
Swift on-boarded each member of the tribe in a different manner: Dunham and Swift first connected on Twitter in 2012; Swift met Kloss at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show a year later; most of us became aware of the model Martha Hunt when she started appearing in various Swift dinner-party Instagrams this winter.
At the age of 25, Swift is as wildly popular among tweens as she is among millennials . She has seven Grammys and 16 American Music Awards; she has been nameds Woman of the Year twice, in 2011 and 2014; she is a six-time recipient of the Nashville Songwriters Association's prize for songwriter/artist of the year; and according toshe made $80 million over the past year, with an estimated net worth of $200 million.
stream on Apple Music. Swift told me that, even after Apple's policy reversal, she was waiting for the indie labels Merlin and Beggers Group to commit to Apple Music before following suit. While Apple's willingness to engage with Swift on a one-on-one level is in and of itself indicative of her great influence, that the famously secretive and tight-lipped company was willing to chat with me about Swift certainly confirmed it.
THE WOMAN IN WHITE"I think I know how to put together a good outfit," says Swift."But any day you're going to admit to being a style icon is a day you need to look in the mirror and really check yourself."oday, Swift says, she feels"very understood" by the public, but she was not always so pleased with the way she was perceived.
I suggest that it can sometimes be hard to maintain one's identity in a new relationship, and Swift laughs, wisely. "People ask me if my daughter makes me cry," Andrea says to me."And I say that it's when I see other people cry, meeting her,At the 1989 World Tour stop in Charlotte, North Carolina, Andrea emerged from backstage about 10 minutes before the show was to begin, and I watched as the fans sitting near the stage swarmed her, giving her hugs and asking for selfies.
Swift leans forward and smiles coyly when asked if she and West have planned a collaboration, responding she"wouldn't rule it out." She assesses, diplomatically,"We haven't planned anything. But, hey, I like him as a person. And that's a really good, nice first step, a nice place for us to be.
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