#tily

Taylor Swift, Suki Waterhouse, Lily Donaldson at her Cornelia Street rental apartment, in 2016.

this bodysuit she is wearing is in a corset shape/style so its most likely that the back of it is laced up.

my interpretation of this photo is that the way she is hovered over reminds me of a position in which a corset is laced up. like shes bracing herself to get into this bodysuit.

How I intrept this further is that that corsets are often constricting due to the figure hugging & boning of the corset, this could be taylor constricting her true self and making herself fit into this brand/perofrmance or her showgirl persona she has created. costuming/styling is typically a super detailed thing that requires a thought process on why a person/character is dressed like this and why they dress like that, and how it relfects the persons story or could foreshadow what we yet don't know about this person. Or what the overarching theme is.

also to add further onto this shes clearly backstage, so taylor seems to be getting ready to perform. her face expression really sticks out as it seems mundane, its not happy or condifent or sad its hard to read. this could reflect that shes so consumed by this showgirl persona shes losing herself. shes seems unethused by performing or tired of it.

but the audience doesn't want to see the true taylor, they want to see the showgirl persona we all know, because behind the scenes of being showgirl is probably messy, chaotic, and not what we expect. much like taylors true self to the public and unknwoing eye would be a shock, messy and not what you would expect.