{"id":66974,"date":"2025-10-09T03:51:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66974\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:51:13","slug":"taylor-swift-wears-adelaide-label-paolo-sebastian-in-her-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66974\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Wears Adelaide Label Paolo Sebastian in Her New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world seemed to stop for a few minutes over the weekend when Taylor Swift dropped the music video for The Fate of Ophelia, the lead track of her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. While fans of Swift were busy spouting theories and decoding Easter eggs, Adelaide-based fashion designer Paul Vasileff had his own reason to hit the replay button: the global pop superstar donned a gown from his label Paolo Sebastian<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know it would be featured in [the] music video until it went live,\u201d Vasileff tells Broadsheet. \u201cWe found out with the rest of the world. I was getting ready to board a flight to Dubai and saw some images of Taylor in the dress, along with a short clip from the video. It was so hard to sit on a plane for 12 hours disconnected from everything, wanting to see more.\u201d <\/p>\n

In a dramatic theatre scene set on a ship\u2019s bow, Swift appears in a hand-beaded, exposed corset-cage gown adorned with paillette and crystal work, including a jewelled garnet heart pierced by an arrow. The look, one of many that Swift wears throughout the video, is from Paolo Sebastian\u2019s 2024\u201325 autumn\/winter couture collection, A Lover\u2019s Kiss, inspired by Shakespeare\u2019s great romances. The pairing feels like kismet as Swift sings about her own love story. <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not the first time the singer has sported a look from an Australian designer. Last year she was spotted in Dion Lee\u2019s crochet Suspend corset<\/a> at the Super Bowl while cheering on now-fianc\u00e9 Travis Kelce, ahead of the Australian leg of the Eras Tour. <\/p>\n

For Vasileff, whose designs have been worn by star names including Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Anya Taylor-Joy, the pop cultural moment is a proud one for his Adelaide couture house. <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel incredibly grateful and so excited to know that something that was handcrafted in Adelaide has now been showcased on a global stage,\u201d he says. \u201cHearing from followers who recognised the dress as a Paolo Sebastian design before it was officially announced was such a wonderful compliment. Knowing that people from around the world can identify our work like that is an accomplishment for the brand.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it comes to telling a story through fashion, both Swift and Paolo Sebastian certainly know how to make the whole place shimmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world seemed to stop for a few minutes over the weekend when Taylor Swift dropped the music…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-66974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}