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Naeem Khan Fall 2020

  • Gorgeous
  • I Think He Knows
  • Holy Ground

There’s always one per tour. Not to consider this a “throwaway” choice by any means, but a Taylor Swift tour really isn’t complete without a dress that looks pretty much precisely like this. Fringed, sequinned, colourful, short. Obviously styled for the stage without the thigh high boots that Naeem Khan included in their original runway styling and instead a pair of heeled ankle boots or sandals. This was the perfect dress choice for a set of fun, upbeat, flirty, happy songs.

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Naeem Khan Fall 2020

  • Gorgeous
  • I Think He Knows
  • Holy Ground

There’s always one per tour. Not to consider this a “throwaway” choice by any means, but a Taylor Swift tour really isn’t complete without a dress that looks pretty much precisely like this. Fringed, sequinned, colourful, short. Obviously styled for the stage without the thigh high boots that Naeem Khan included in their original runway styling and instead a pair of heeled ankle boots or sandals. This was the perfect dress choice for a set of fun, upbeat, flirty, happy songs.

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Bibhu Mohapatra Fall 2020

  • PIANO SET
  • Lover
  • Daylight/Red (mashup)
  • All Too Well

While this wasn’t my personal favourite lewk from this collection, I couldn’t ignore the similarity this gown has to the pink caped gown she wore while sitting at the piano during her American Music Awards Artist of the Decade performance. This was such a huge moment for Taylor in her career and the gown feels like a nice nod to an accomplishment she got to have under her belt during the Lover era. Appropriately, I of course selected it for a dedicated piano moment during the setlist. Sans gloves, this would be a beautiful seated look for her.

P.S. Yes please be prepared to be emotionally distraught over the Daylight/Red mashup we deserve as well as the inclusion of fan favourite “All Too Well” which I thought was appropriate to include here given Taylor’s deference for playing it live this past era and her own admittance that through the gift of time and fans embracing this song, it no longer feels sad for her to play. But instead feels joyous and makes her associate the song with so many beautiful, happy memories. I think that’s been a big part of what Lover has also been about: Embracing that which previously hurt you and feeling grateful for what makes you feel loved in the now.

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TAYLOR SWIFT STYLE – LOVER FEST

Bibhu Mohapatra Fall 2020

  • PIANO SET
  • Lover
  • Daylight/Red (mashup)
  • All Too Well

While this wasn’t my personal favourite lewk from this collection, I couldn’t ignore the similarity this gown has to the pink caped gown she wore while sitting at the piano during her American Music Awards Artist of the Decade performance. This was such a huge moment for Taylor in her career and the gown feels like a nice nod to an accomplishment she got to have under her belt during the Lover era. Appropriately, I of course selected it for a dedicated piano moment during the setlist. Sans gloves, this would be a beautiful seated look for her.

P.S. Yes please be prepared to be emotionally distraught over the Daylight/Red mashup we deserve as well as the inclusion of fan favourite “All Too Well” which I thought was appropriate to include here given Taylor’s deference for playing it live this past era and her own admittance that through the gift of time and fans embracing this song, it no longer feels sad for her to play. But instead feels joyous and makes her associate the song with so many beautiful, happy memories. I think that’s been a big part of what Lover has also been about: Embracing that which previously hurt you and feeling grateful for what makes you feel loved in the now.

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Alexander McQueen Resort 2020

  • Style
  • False God
  • Afterglow

As promised, suits will be incorporated into a few looks for my Lover Fest predictions. This one is one of my favourites. It’s mature, it’s sultry, it would have amazing movement on stage, and it incorporates a tiny punch of Lover-esque colour while still being refined and sexy — appropriate for this trio of songs for which she would perform while wearing it. I even love the two-toned heels also seen here in the original McQueen styling. 

On that note, Taylor typically works with one shoe brand for the majority of her footwear tour choices. My bets for Lover Fest would be either Kat Maconie (Taylor wore several of her colourful, quirky heels in the early days of promoting the album) or Stella McCartney, an obvious choice given their capsule collaboration for the album’s release. 

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Alexander McQueen Resort 2020

  • Style
  • False God
  • Afterglow
As promised, suits will be incorporated into a few looks for my Lover Fest predictions. This one is one of my favourites. It’s mature, it’s sultry, it would have amazing movement on stage, and it incorporates a tiny punch of Lover-esque colour while still being refined and sexy — appropriate for this trio of songs for which she would perform while wearing it. I even love the two-toned heels also seen here in the original McQueen styling. On that note, Taylor typically works with one shoe brand for the majority of her footwear tour choices. My bets for Lover Fest would be either Kat Maconie (Taylor wore several of her colourful, quirky heels in the early days of promoting the album) or Stella McCartney, an obvious choice given their capsule collaboration for the album’s release. 

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Raisa & Vanessa Spring 2020

  • Love Story
  • Paper Rings/You’re The One That I Want (mashup cover)

You may recall Raisa & Vanessa as the brand behind the purple lilac pastel ruffle mini from the 2019 BBMAs. Here, I have them return for a sequinned modern country lewk. Act II was a fun consideration for me in the setlist to thematically pair Taylor’s mainstay “Love Story” (I truly can’t imagine a future tour without this) and a mashup I’ve been thinking about since I first heard “Paper Rings” on the album — combining “Paper Rings” with the iconic “You’re The One That I Want” bop from the musical Grease. Can’t you just picture it? “Uh huh, that’s right / You’re the one that I want! Oo oo oo honey!”. It’s a vibe similar to the “Stay Stay Stay”/“Ho Hey” mashup that Taylor employed on the RED Tour. It’s cute, it’s fun, it’s boppy, and together these songs comprise a theme very much in deference to the “love” aspect of the Lover tour.

The accompanying tour look is classic Taylor in that it’s sequinned and colourful. But it’s also a country-esque nod to Taylor’s early days when “Love Story” was first released (which Taylor also alluded to style-wise in the “ME!” music video here) and her similar pink hip fringey moment in Jessica Jones on The Graham Norton Show while performing “ME!”.

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Raisa & Vanessa Spring 2020

  • Love Story
  • Paper Rings/You’re The One That I Want (mashup cover)

You may recall Raisa & Vanessa as the brand behind the purple lilac pastel ruffle mini from the 2019 BBMAs. Here, I have them return for a sequinned modern country lewk. Act II was a fun consideration for me in the setlist to thematically pair Taylor’s mainstay “Love Story” (I truly can’t imagine a future tour without this) and a mashup I’ve been thinking about since I first heard “Paper Rings” on the album — combining “Paper Rings” with the iconic “You’re The One That I Want” bop from the musical Grease. Can’t you just picture it? “Uh huh, that’s right / You’re the one that I want! Oo oo oo honey!”. It’s a vibe similar to the “Stay Stay Stay”/“Ho Hey” mashup that Taylor employed on the RED Tour. It’s cute, it’s fun, it’s boppy, and together these songs comprise a theme very much in deference to the “love” aspect of the Lover tour.

The accompanying tour look is classic Taylor in that it’s sequinned and colourful. But it’s also a country-esque nod to Taylor’s early days when “Love Story” was first released (which Taylor also alluded to style-wise in the “ME!” music video here) and her similar pink hip fringey moment in Jessica Jones on The Graham Norton Show while performing “ME!”.

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Halpern Spring 2017

  • Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince
  • You Need To Calm Down
  • The Man
  • Blank Space

I think one of the hardest parts of this series was trying to determine what song would open the tour. Taylor has a strong history of choosing the opening track of the album also as the opening song for the tour (see: RED Tour, 1989 Tour, Reputation Tour). But as was the case when I was writing the TSS Lover Track by Track (it’s coming! it is coming SO SOON) I redid the tracklist, bumping “I Forgot That You Existed” from the opening slot; a position I think the song is unworthy of having. But in considering everything that the disjointed Lover era has thus far represented, I think the most poignant is the revealing documentary for which this song was named and the many choices Taylor has taken to be more vocally supportive of her beliefs and stances (Stonewall performance, voters rights, Equality Act, her entire Billboard Women In Music speech, Sco[ot]ter drama). This song is moody, mature, well-spoken and sets a really strong tone for where Taylor is currently at in her life.

In coupling other songs to follow “MA&THP” I thought about songs that took similar, bold (for Taylor) stances. “YNTCD” being her most outright support for the LGBTQ community (even more dedicated than the line in “Welcome To New York”), “The Man” which tackles her career-long sexist double-standards in the music industry and her personal dating life, and the iconic “Blank Space” which Taylor described herself as a song “so tongue in cheek, that if people don’t get the joke, they don’t deserve to have the joke explained to them.”

Beyond just all of this setlist consideration, I had to think of what that one outfit that could best fit in with all of these incredibly important songs look like — not just to represent the nature of these songs, but to also serve as the most photographed look of the tour (tour photographers typically only are permitted to take photographs during the first 3-5 songs of a show so as not to continue interfering with the concert-going experience). So it had to look good, be immediately recognizable and show-ready (all those stagelights) but also be bold, feminine, strong, Taylor Swiftian, and just a little bit gay. Enter: rainbow sequin jumpsuit. While I definitely have a good share of suits planned for later in the setlist, and one could have easily imagined a suit here to be worn during “The Man”, a jumpsuit felt like a great compromise.

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TAYLOR SWIFT STYLE – LOVER FEST

Halpern Spring 2017

  • Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince
  • You Need To Calm Down
  • The Man
  • Blank Space

I think one of the hardest parts of this series was trying to determine what song would open the tour. Taylor has a strong history of choosing the opening track of the album also as the opening song for the tour (see: RED Tour, 1989 Tour, Reputation Tour). But as was the case when I was writing the TSS Lover Track by Track (it’s coming! it is coming SO SOON) I redid the tracklist, bumping “I Forgot That You Existed” from the opening slot; a position I think the song is unworthy of having. But in considering everything that the disjointed Lover era has thus far represented, I think the most poignant is the revealing documentary for which this song was named and the many choices Taylor has taken to be more vocally supportive of her beliefs and stances (Stonewall performance, voters rights, Equality Act, her entire Billboard Women In Music speech, Sco[ot]ter drama). This song is moody, mature, well-spoken and sets a really strong tone for where Taylor is currently at in her life.

In coupling other songs to follow “MA&THP” I thought about songs that took similar, bold (for Taylor) stances. “YNTCD” being her most outright support for the LGBTQ community (even more dedicated than the line in “Welcome To New York”), “The Man” which tackles her career-long sexist double-standards in the music industry and her personal dating life, and the iconic “Blank Space” which Taylor described herself as a song “so tongue in cheek, that if people don’t get the joke, they don’t deserve to have the joke explained to them.”

Beyond just all of this setlist consideration, I had to think of what that one outfit that could best fit in with all of these incredibly important songs look like — not just to represent the nature of these songs, but to also serve as the most photographed look of the tour (tour photographers typically only are permitted to take photographs during the first 3-5 songs of a show so as not to continue interfering with the concert-going experience). So it had to look good, be immediately recognizable and show-ready (all those stagelights) but also be bold, feminine, strong, Taylor Swiftian, and just a little bit gay. Enter: rainbow sequin jumpsuit. While I definitely have a good share of suits planned for later in the setlist, and one could have easily imagined a suit here to be worn during “The Man”, a jumpsuit felt like a great compromise.