Taylor Swift is definitely in the running for “most photographed street style of 2014″ (Kim Kardashian and Reese Witherspoon are also top contenders), which is why it’s no surprise that we’ve started to see an army of Swift lookalikes (clad in colorful jeans, plaid skirts, cute coats and fancy hats) hitting the streets of N.Y.C. And, she tells Asos magazine, she started these trends (perhaps inadvertently) with one very important group of critics in mind: Her BFFs.
Courtesy Ben Sullivan for Asos Magazine
“When I’m getting dressed, it’s always based on what my friends will think,” she says. “They are my number one priority and the opinions of girls are more important to me at this point in my life.”
She knows she can trust their opinion because she surrounds herself with girls who are cool in their own right. “My friends are the kind of people that have their own lives, and their own busy schedules, and that’s why we get along so well,” she says. “A lot of ‘celebrities’ surround themselves with these very chic cling-ons who don’t really have much of a job or a passion, they follow around their celebrity BFF and provide constant affirmation for them and I’m really not interested in that kind of deal.”
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Courtesy Ben Sullivan Asos Magazine
The star pushes her fashion boundaries a bit in the spread, but ultimately, it all comes back to her beloved crop top-and-skirt ensembles. And she says you won’t see her abandoning her tried-and-true looks for something Gaga-level wacky anytime soon. “I think that as much as you should be creative and experiment, there are certain things I know are fads and so I try to steer clear of most of the obvious ones,” she says. “I play the tape of my life forward and don’t wear the things that my kids or grandkids will make fun of me for wearing, [like] ‘Wow, cool, mom, cool cowboy boots that you were wearing constantly in 2006!’”
In addition to steering clear of over-the-top trends, Swift also says she’s always thinking about how to prevent wardrobe snafus with cameras around. “For me, it’s important to be comfortable in what I’m wearing. Being comfortable means that no one’s going to be able to pull a fast one and take a picture of me that they’ll deem to be embarrassing,” she says. “I don’t want to wear something so short that I’m scared there will be a wardrobe malfunction, or have a picture of me falling out of of my shorts or skirt.”
But even if they do ever catch her in an awkward moment, Swift says she’s just going to (sing it with us now) shake, shake, shake it off. “If my life had been turbulence free, no bumps in the road at all, maybe my music would be more beige, maybe the stadiums wouldn’t be so full and the mantle would be a little more empty.” And maybe we wouldn’t be listening to 1989 in the office for, oh, the thirty millionth time.
What do you think of her fashion spread? Do you get dressed for girls or guys?
–Alex Apatoff
