‘Taylor Town’: how Liverpool transformed itself for Taylor Swift

Upcycled jacket by Bethan Flanagan at the workspace run by social enterprise Make CIC, which is creating 11 installations for Taylor Swift’s Liverpool tour. Photograph: Richard Saker/the Observer

The name of music royalty hangs from Liverpool’s historic buildings. Art installations mark the biggest pop hits. An army of loyal fans is about to invade. But this isn’t Beatlemania. This is Taylor Town.

For one fortnight only, Liverpool will be transformed into a Taylor Swift “playground” to give the US megastar a “proper scouse welcome” as her history-making world tour lands in the UK.