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Speculation can finally come to an end. Before she said “I do” to Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift said “I do” to a dress — from Dior.

A statement provided by a representative for Swift confirmed that the designer of her wedding gown is Jonathan Anderson, the newish creative director of the French house, who, since he joined last year, has been charged with revitalizing its global profile. Making what may be the single most high-profile dress of the year — likely to inspire innumerable copycats — is one way to do it. No photos of the dress have been released.

It’s a coup for Anderson, especially following Dua Lipa’s choice of Dior rival Chanel for her recent wedding. It’s a win for Delphine Arnault, the chief executive of Dior, who fought to bring Anderson to the brand. And it’s confirmation that Swift, whose taste tends to the fairy tale rather than the avant-garde, eccentric or understated, and has never seemingly bought into the snobbism of the high fashion world, was thinking about posterity as much as princesses when it comes to this particular event.

Getting the hot new designer at one of the most storied couture houses in Paris to design your dress, like situating your wedding in a giant arena smack in the middle of one of the busiest cities in the world, on one of the busiest weekends, is a flex.

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Tayor Swift is “Red”-hot again on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. Her new single, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” on Pixar/Walt Disney/Republic/MCA Nashville, blasts in at No. 8 on the June 20-dated list with 19.4 million audience impressions in the week ending June 11, following its June 5 release, according to Luminate.

The harmonica-laden tender song about enduring friendship from Toy Story 5 launches as Swift’s 19th Country Airplay top 10 — and her first since “Red” reached No. 7 in December 2013, ahead of her pivot to pop with her 2014 album, 1989. Among her top 10 haul, beginning with “Tim McGraw” in December 2006, she has notched seven No. 1s.

“I Knew It, I Knew You” makes history as the first song by a woman to debut in the Country Airplay top 10, dating to the chart’s January 1990 start. Just one other title has begun in the tier: Garth Brooks’ “More Than a Memory” premiered at No. 1 in September 2007. (“Stations broke with longstanding programming philosophies,” Billboard noted that week, as Brooks was emerging from a several-year career hiatus.)

Swift — who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame June 11 — adds her 40th Country Airplay entry and first since her Chris Stapleton collaboration “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault),” which hit No. 23 in November 2021.

“I think Taylor is arguably the biggest music star in the world. [“I Knew It, I Knew You” is] part of one of the biggest films of the summer. It fits sonically and in style to what else is on country radio. All three of those things make it the easiest programming decision of the year,” Brent Michaels, PD/on-air personality at KRJK-FM and KUZZ-AM/FM Bakersfield, Calif., previously told Billboard. “If Taylor is creating music that fits alongside the other biggest hitmakers in country, we’re crazy to not go along for the ride. She moves the needle with every project.”