Taylor Swift shined like a disco ball at the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Dolby Theater, in Hollywood on Monday evening. And fittingly, she glistened like the two trophies she took home in her eye-catching design.
The singer channeled Grace Jones in a mystical charcoal crystal-encrusted hooded wrap top with matching pantaboots from Alexandre Vauthier’s Spring/Summer 2023 Couture collection. The Grammy-winning artist added extra bling with KatKim fine jewelry, styled by Joseph Cassell Falconer.
Under her hood, Swift wore her blonde strands straightened with blunt bangs. Her glam included a silver smokey eye and glossed pink lips.
Swift picked up the award for song of the year for her Midnights track, “Anti-Hero.” Then, Swift’s tour-mate and “Nothing New” collaborator Phoebe Bridgers presented the Lover musician with the Innovator Award for her continuous contributions to the music industry.
Wearing a slinky black Rodarte halter dress with rosette, Bridgers said, “When I was little, I wanted to be a songwriter. I had lots of big feelings and I wanted to write songs about them. But songs were written by adults, about their very adult lives, so when I started writing, I just made stuff up. I heard a girl not much older than me singing a song she had written about her own life. As I grew up, so did Taylor, and so did her songs.”
“I’m grateful to have grown up in a world with Taylor Swift in it,” Bridgers concluded.
In her acceptance speech, Swift said, “The hundreds or thousands of dumb ideas that I’ve had are what led me to my good ideas. You have to give yourself permission to fail.”
Along with her two shiny new trophies, Swift reached another milestone, becoming the first living recording artist to have seven albums reaching the top 40 of the Billboard 200 chart simultaneously. The only other artist to have reached this status was Whitney Houston in 2012, after she passed away that February.
Swift is currently performing on her Eras Tour through August 9.
