Why Taylor Swift Didn’t Attend the 2023 Met Gala: Details
usmagazine.comWorking hard! Taylor Swift didn’t steal the show at the Met Gala — much to the disappointment of Swifties — but she missed the red carpet event for a good reason.
Fans hoped to see Swift on her first red carpet after her split from Joe Alwyn last month. Swift’s last Met Gala appearance was in 2016 — where fans speculate she first met ex Alwyn, 32, who was also in attendance.
While the pair were first officially linked in May 2017, the Grammy winner referenced the event in her song “Dress,” which is off her 2017 album Reputation and largely believed to be inspired by the Conversations With Friends actor. “Flashback to when you met me / Your buzzcut and my hair bleached,” Swift croons on the track, seemingly hinting at her now-famous bleach-blonde bob that she spotted on the red carpet at the time.
Alwyn, for his part, had his head shaved for his role in 2016’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. The 2016 Met Gala theme was “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology.” In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies The Evermore artist and the England native were together for nearly six years before they called it quits for good last month.
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