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TAYLOR SWIFT STYLE — AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS

While Taylor has had a history of going short and mini at the AMAs (just look at last year’s disco Balmain ensemble for reference) given that Taylor will be receiving the incredibly prestigious Artist of the Decade, it was my thought that she would take the opportunity and go serious with a full-length moment. 

My choices aimed to strike a balance between the (albeit inconsistent) aesthetic of the Lover era with choices that still honour and celebrate Taylor’s evolution in style over the last decade. 

I hope I got it. 

Here we go!

• Iris Van Herpen Spring 2020
  – Just give me a moment to pick myself off the floor. I haven’t yet met an IVH creation that hasn’t taken my breath away and this fluttering sunset moment is no different. Iris creations are works of art and I felt the colours represented here are an ode to the Lover album while also a nod to the princess-like gowns of Taylor’s past — just executed in an incredibly elegant way appropriate for an almost 30 year old. Stick a fork in me if Taylor ever wears something akin to this.
• Halpern Spring 2020
  
  – Out of all my suit choices (and if you watched the Making Of video you know there were a-plenty) this one felt the most alluring to Taylor’s historic magpie soul. Taylor has never met a sequin she didn’t like and she’s been on quite the hot streak with menswear inspired suits (much to the fatigue of some, I know). She’d cut a sleek silhouette in this and would of course send an incredibly strong symbol to viewers and attendees about how far she has come since her sundress and cowgirl boot days to stand on the AMA stage and receive its highest honour. A dark berry lip and a crushed glittery metallic smoky eye would be great here, if you please.
• Elie Saab Spring 2020
  
  – I very rarely acquiesce to fan requests but on a night like this when Taylor is honouring her decade long journey in the music industry, it felt apt to include an old red carpet standby designer as an option for this predictions post. While a little boring and expected, Elie Saab gowns are consistently pretty and Taylor wears their sparkly, classic, princess styles incredibly well. I chose this more daring one (Taylor would likely wear a much stronger nude lining underneath) because of its subtle rainbow iridescence — another Lover nod in nostalgic packaging, no?
• Oscar de la Renta Spring 2020
  
  – While my first IVH choice evoked the colours of sunset, this one is all about sunrise. Delicate, frothy, irreverently girly. It has everything that the Lover aesthetic originally promised us from the moment Taylor stepped out in that pink and yellow sorbet gown by J. Mendel at the Time 100 Gala (the best she’s looked all era, am I right?). This gown is everything we have been yearning and promised for in this era. And on such a huge night of recognition for Taylor, it seems like the right time to get it, don’t you think?

What do you think of my choices? Do you have a favourite or a particular designer you hope Taylor will wear for the show?