Taylor-made illusion
THE WEEK India|July 14, 2024
There is a lovely lady who frequents my gym and earns herself some nudge-nudge and wink-winks each time she passes by. “She looks like she’s going to a Taylor Swift concert,” say the other girls.
NAMRATA ZAKARIA
Taylor-made illusion

The said lady has a penchant for a little shimmer, shine, sequins and colour in her gym wear—more often than not, all at once—while the rest of us mortals don more forgiving black.

She probably did end up going to Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’, which has boosted the UK and Europe’s economy as much as the Euro Cup and the Olympics. As did Prince William, Emma Stone, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Salma Hayek, Stella McCartney and dad Paul McCartney, Tom Cruise, Hugh Grant, Katy Perry and Selena Gomez. It hardly matters whether I like Swift’s music or not (I don’t), she remains the most played singer on Spotify and is the only person ever to have won an album of the year Grammy four times. But what is it about her style that is so instantly recognisable and immediately dislikable?

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