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Following The Tortured Poets Department‘s monochrome “shades of greige,” will Taylor Swift’s next era be “in screaming color”?
The Eras Tour — where Swift is known to keep fans guessing what color outfits she’ll wear, and has been debuting particularly bright and colorful dresses over the past few weeks across North America — is on break this weekend, but Swift still stepped out in a multicolor new dress while in New York City.
Friday night (Nov. 8), Swift was photographed arriving at a dinner spot in Manhattan. She exited a car wearing a familiar Vivienne Westwood silhouette: a style called the Sunday dress, revived from Vivienne Westwood’s Spring-Summer 1997 collection (and worn by Swift previously, just in more subtle colorways). On this Friday night she wore a version of the dress with a simple, striped skirt that turns bold and colorful when it reaches a corset-inspired bodice. The dress bodice brings to mind an art canvas, with yellow and red paint mixing together to make orange, all laid atop the blue striped fabric of the skirt.
Meanwhile, on stage for the final leg of the Eras Tour, Swift has been embracing vibrancy in a series of new, multicolored dresses worn during her acoustic surprise songs set. She’s been cycling through these latest Roberto Cavalli looks since wearing them for the first time in Miami and New Orleans, in October. (At football game sightings she’s mostly gone for a more subdued look: a lot of black, mixed with Chiefs red.)
The Eras Tour, which highlights music from the early days of Swift’s career through 2024, officially wraps on Dec. 8. She has not yet announced what’s in store after it ends, but she’s been known to drop hints in what she wears.
Here’s a quick roundup of the very colorful dresses Swift has recently debuted:
Arriving to dinner with friends in a dress that’s a surrealist dreamscape on top and utilitarian stripes on the bottom, Swift wore a Vivienne Westwood design in an unexpected color combination. She accessorized her Nov. 8 street style in New York with a pair of Aquazzura velvet heeled sandals in burgundy, a small, black Vivienne Westwood purse and a vintage statement necklace featuring a large coin as its centerpiece.
One of Swift’s new dresses worn while singing her show’s surprise songs is this custom, multicolored gown from Roberto Cavalli, with hot red-orange fading into a muted yellow, and then to royal blue. She’s only worn this design very recently, while nearing the end of her Eras Tour. Here, she’s pictured in it on Oct. 25 in New Orleans.
Also courtesy of Roberto Cavalli is the same dress style as above, but in a pink-and-blue color scheme that mashes into purple in some spots. The photo below is from her acoustic set on Nov. 1 in Indianapolis.
On Nov. 5, Roberto Cavalli creative director Fausto Puglisi posted a photo on Instagram of a bright yellow, orange and pink gown worn by Swift (in the same style shown above), which has only been seen on stage this fall during her acoustic set. “My new sunset, new orchid, new tropical dream,” he captioned the image, which you can see here.
Deep into a slideshow of pictures from her recent weekend of concerts in New Orleans, on Oct. 29, Swift also included a picture of herself in a new dress on Instagram, wearing another Roberto Cavalli gown that she’s added to her Eras wardrobe options for surprise song time. This one was in blue and purple. See the dress here (shown in the 14th photo in the set).
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Bowling For Soup and Frank Turner say they are certain they will eventually record music together.
The pop punk favourites and the singer songwriter will be touring together across Australia and the UK throughout May, June and July for a series of co headlining shows. They also came close to recording a track together for Bowling For Soup’s upcoming twelfth studio album.
Lead singer Jaret Reddick told ContactMusic.com: "We had actually talked about doing a track together for the new [BFS] album.
"I was working on songs during a really hectic period for Frank. We had planned this perfect day where he would stop by the studio. He did show up, but we ended up just spending time together and catching up instead, with no expectations.
"I feel like if we had tried to finish something just to release it before the tours, it probably would not have come out the way we wanted.
"I do believe that at some point down the line we are both sure we will create something together."
Frank and Jaret have already worked side by side in the studio before on the track Drunk As It Takes, which appeared on the BFS frontman’s country album.
Frank reflected: "There is something special about country songwriting that I think we both really admire.
"There is a real honesty and straightforwardness to it that I think both of us naturally bring into our own music, no matter what style we are working in."
Even though Frank is not featured on the new record, Jaret did share some insight into Bowling For Soup’s forthcoming album, which gained momentum after they recorded Holding Onto That Hate last summer while testing equipment for audio company SSL.
He explained: "They were looking for a band to come in and record a track to test out some new studio equipment. It ended up being our first recording as a three piece.
"I remember telling the guys, 'I think I am feeling inspired again. Let’s just go for it.'
"We set a target date, which ended up being February this year, and we followed through. A lot of the songwriting happened toward the end of last year and continued into January."
Jaret mentioned that he considers the 2009 album Sorry For Partying to be "the last truly great Bowling For Soup record," but he is very optimistic about what is coming next.
He said: "Some fans would probably argue and say, 'Actually, Lunch. Drunk. Love. is great as well'.
"But when I think about the last couple of albums, I sometimes feel like there were a few tracks I maybe should have left off.
"With this new record, there honestly is not a single weak track. All three of us feel like this could end up being the best Bowling For Soup album we have ever made, which feels wild to even say."
At first, the group considered putting the album out quickly, but they later decided to take more time with it.
He added: "To be honest, that idea does not really make sense since we will be touring with Frank and also heading out with Simple Plan.
"We are now thinking about releasing it in the fall or possibly even early next year. It is going to be worth the wait."
Full schedule for Bowling For Soup x Frank Turner Bowl My Bones UK Tour 2026:
June 25 Margate Dreamland
June 26 Southampton TK Maxx Presents Southampton Summer Sessions
June 27 Lincoln TK Maxx Presents Live at Lincoln Castle
June 29 Glasgow O2 Academy Glasgow
June 30 Halifax TK Maxx Presents Live at The Piece Hall
July 2 Scarborough TK Maxx Presents Scarborough Open Air Theatre
July 3 Llangollen TK Maxx Presents Live at Llangollen Pavillion
July 4 Cardiff TK Maxx Presents Depot Live at Cardiff Castle
July 5 St Austell Eden Sessions
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