A few days before my interview with Clio Peppiatt, Taylor Swift turned 34. This would have been an irrelevant detail had the singer-songwriter not chosen one of the British designer’s dresses in which to celebrate.
‘It was a really, really big surprise,’ says Peppiatt, explaining that the dress had originally been lent to Swift for another event, which didn’t end up materialising. ‘I understand that, you know, sometimes it just doesn’t work out. We were told she’d like to hang onto a couple of pieces. And that was as much as I knew.’
