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"   Left, Taylor Swift styled by Joe Zee for ELLE&amp;#039;s April issue &amp;amp;amp; right, Taylor Swift at last night&amp;#039;s American Music Awards. Photos: Alexei Hay; Getty Images  On Sunday night, I was doing what I do best: Procrastinating. I had my column to write but instead, there I was, plopped in front of the TV watching the American Music Awards. My Twitter feed and Facebook status updates were buzzing with cries of revolt: Autotune has ruined the music industry! This isn&amp;#039;t Beiber fever, it&amp;#039;s Beiber malaria! Why isn&amp;#039;t Kanye here for a dose of unexpected fun? But me? I was mesmerized by Taylor Swift. She stepped on stage to accept her award in a short beaded dress \u2014 with straight hair! And bangs! It was the look she sported in ELLE&amp;#039;s April cover story, but one she hadn&amp;#039;t yet carried into real life. I remember our photo shoot vividly; it was this time last year and Taylor&amp;#039;s publicist made sure I knew that Taylor&amp;#039;s very attached to her curly hair. It&amp;#039;d be difficult to try anything different, she said. Ok, I get it. Her curly hair is her calling card and who am I to confuse her fans? Especially on a cover. But what about our inside fashion story? Couldn&amp;#039;t we try something new? Something more sophisticated? Probably not, I was told. Finally, the day of the shoot, Taylor arrives sweet as apple pie, so I ask anyway. I needed to set her straight \u2014 so to say. She said, &amp;quot;Yes!&amp;quot; without so much as a second thought. It was time and she knew it. Her fans would love her, bangs and all. That same night she had dinner with Emma Stone and the paparazzi went crazy for her hair (or, maybe, the combined star power) and it debuted in our pages a few months later. I&amp;#039;d like to think Taylor referred to our ELLE story \u2014 pairing the short dresses with bangs \u2014 when she was getting ready for the AMA&amp;#039;s, but maybe I&amp;#039;m giving us too much credit. In any case, I&amp;#039;m happy to have played in some part in Taylor, The Next Act. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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