Taylor Swift’s longtime wardrobe stylist, Joseph Cassell, has had the time of his life fighting dragons — and dressing — the pop star.
“As I watch these episodes it makes me so happy to see how we — the cast, the crew, THE FANS, the cities around the world — all got to help Taylor create an experience so massively global and yet equally intimate and deeply personal,” Cassell wrote via Instagram on Saturday, December 20. “Once in a lifetime doesn’t begin to describe it —right?!”
Cassell has styled Swift’s wardrobe since the early days of her music career, recently helping her suit up for her record-breaking Eras Tour. His contributions were prominently featured in the latest episodes of Taylor Swift: End of an Era docuseries, which premiered Friday, December 19, on Disney+.
“Thank you, Taylor, for trusting me to be a part of this incredible journey,” Cassell continued in his social media upload. “I love this photo so much and, when I saw it, the first thing I thought (aside from the fact that I really needed a haircut) is that I can’t remember the number of times I’ve looked up at you from that same position the photographer captured in this image.”
He added, “What I do remember is that every time I look up, I’ll see the same kind, beautiful, encouraging, self-deprecating, brilliant, hilarious [and] immensely talented person that I met so many years ago in Nashville and have traveled the world with ever since.”
Cassell further thanked Swift for “letting me support your dreams” and bring her “vision to life.”
“I, like every other Swiftie, can’t wait for the last two episodes to drop, so I can hop back on this Disney+ roller coaster of copious tears and uncontrollable laughter,” he concluded.
In one of Friday’s new episodes, Swift and Cassell had a fitting fort her then-new Reputation bodysuit.
“The original catsuit was made from a different fabric,” Cassell said in the docuseries after Swift noticed the suit didn’t properly fit.“That was all the fabric that there was in the world, so we had to recreate the fabric for the second one and for this one.”
For the majority of Swift’s Eras concerts, she rocked a black Roberto Cavalli bodysuit with sequined red accents. A new costume, studded in gold, was made for the second leg of North American shows in fall 2024.
“We thought we could fix [the original version] because there was no time for them to recreate a new one for Miami,” he said during footage from the fitting. “They couldn’t do it.”
After Swift stepped out in the golden Reputation bodysuit, fans were mistakenly convinced that she was signaling that a rerecorded version of the album was on the way.
Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift just added four showstopping new looks to the ‘Eras Tour.’ Stepping on stage at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Friday, October 18, she surprised fans and Swifties everywhere with her style, including the first Reputation outfit that’s diverged from the original over five continents and 130 […]
“I haven’t even rerecorded a quarter of it,” Swift previously said in a May letter of rereleasing her 2027 album. “The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it. All that defiance, that longing to be understood while feeling purposefully misunderstood, that desperate hope, that shame-born snarl and mischief.”
She continued at the time, “To be perfectly honest, it’s the one album in those first six that I thought couldn’t be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music or photos or videos. So, I kept putting it off. There will be a time (if you’re into the idea) for unreleased vault tracks from that album to hatch.”
The first four episodes of Taylor Swift: The End of an Era are now streaming on Disney+.
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