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.
The secret history of handbags: the miniature worlds that keep us in check
telegraph.co.ukis Tracey Emin's International Woman case, an artwork commissioned by the French label Longchamp to celebrate 10 years of its Le Pliage bags.
Created with both a belief in, and concurrent disappointment with, the romance and glamour of travel, this case made of wool felt, cotton and leather uses appliqué, embroidery and paint to convey poignant messages such as, 'You Said You Loved Me'.
Life-affirming, with piquant notes of indignation and longing, Emin's bag took an imaginary wanderer as its point of departure: 'International Woman' travelled from one city to another, in search of an 'International Love' with an 'International Man'.
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