Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe inspires a jewellery collection with Gaia Repossi
telegraph.co.ukPuerto Rico, 1981 being her first art acquisition. Invited by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to work on a project that would see her create jewellery inspired by the artist’s own hand-made pieces, the designer entered three years of research and development. “Between the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation’s archive in New York and the Getty Center’s collections of objects I viewed around 100 references and thousands of little objects he had gathered over time in his early work period,” Repossi says. “After digesting the archives, I sorted them by themes that I could see were present in his iconic photographic work which came later,” she explains. “Once they were classified, I started sketching about 80 references of my favourites and.
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