Modern Beauty Trends: In: Taylor Swift’s Real-Estate Binge

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

In: Taylor Swift’s Real-Estate Binge | Out: Faux Fur?

Taylor Swift is queen of TriBeCa. Tom Ford is getting tired of fur.
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“I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.” —Donatella Versace

Tom Ford’s Vegan Diet

Fur... and Also Faux Fur?

Tom Ford, former king of ’90s fashion provocation, has really started to mellow these day. He’s already said he’s kind of over everything being sexy all the time (this from the man who once designed Gucci handcuffs), and he’s sort of disenchanted with consumerism. Now, he’s apparently also over meat. Yep, he’s become a vegan, as he recently revealed. It started for health reasons, but it’s causing him to rethink his use of fur as well. He announced in WWD that he’s phasing out the use of fur from animals that breed solely for their pelts, like mink and foxes, but will still use material from livestock animals like leather and shearling, which, as he points out, is “food byproduct.” He’s also using more faux fur, but he’s also pretty conflicted about that as well. Not only is acrylic, the main ingredient in most faux-fur textiles, pretty toxic to produce, but he also points out that while people would keep a fur coat for a lifetime, often people may buy a faux fur and throw it out after a few seasons.

Taylor Swift’s Real-Estate Empire

Anywhere Else But TriBeCa

Taylor Swift’s 2014 ode to her new hometown “Welcome to New York” was sort of laughed off by locals, but that didn’t dampen Swift’s love of the city at all. Indeed, she’s so into New York, her TriBeCa neighborhood in particular, that she recently doubled down on her real-estate holdings. She now owns about $50 million worth of property on a single TriBeCa block. It all started when she bought a 8,000-square-foot, two-floor duplex from Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson in 2014 for a cool $20 million. She recently decided to also add the $18 million townhouse next door (that one, notably, has a paparazzi-proof garage). (The rumor she was once carried out of her apartment in a suitcase to avoid photographers probably wasn’t true, but if it was, she’ll never have to do it again.) She also bought another unit in her original building for $9.75 million. There’re expectations that she may try to combine the units together. Though, that might prove to be a bit tricky because they’re spread across two neighboring but separate buildings.

Star Wars

Game of Thrones

Disney did not buy the Star Wars franchise for an astounding $4 million just to pump out a final trilogy in the main saga, make a few spinoff films, and be done with it. No, folks, they are in the Star Wars business for the long haul; and, by extension, we’re expected to be in theater seats for just as long. Of course, there’s the upcoming Han Solo movie in May, and the final episode of the main trilogy in 2020. Now, plans are shaping up for what comes after. It was previously announced that The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson would shephard a new, only tangentially related trilogy. That wasn’t enough for Disney, so they started looking around for other proven talents working in the sphere of fantasy and set their sights on Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Hey, judging by how many people only have HBO for their show, that’s not a bad bet. Benioff and Weiss are being handed the keys to a whole new Star Wars series (not a trilogy mind you, but a series of films that could run for who knows how long). The news comes amidst reports that they may have abandoned plans for their HBO show, Confederate, which proved to be controversial when it was announced. The pair is also not slated to work on any of the possible GoT spin-offs currently in the works, either.

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Thylane Blondeau wasn’t even born yet the first time Paris Hilton put on a Juicy Couture sweatsuit, and yet she’s now the new face of the relaunched brand.