On Friday, we learned the absolutely bizarre news that Oscar-winner Tom Hooper is going to be directing a film adaptation of the musical Cats. We also learned that it would star Ian McKellen, Jennifer Hudson and… Taylor Swift. On the same day this film was announced, Taylor stepped out in New York in the lace-and-leopard-print ensemble you see in these photos. Do you get it? SHE’S A CAT. She’s a big cat, a leopard, or maybe a cheetah. The important thing is that whenever you see Taylor, you think “she’s a cat, I remember now.” Anyway, this ensemble is awful. The skirt is hiked up way too high and the lace top with a sports bra underneath makes it look like she’s bizarrely wearing a flesh-colored wide belt. The shoes are struggling too. Now, all that being said, I like that Taylor is back to pap-strolling. I’ve actually missed this.
Meanwhile, did you hear about Taylor getting sued? Taylor has a game now called The Swift Life. Except The Swift Life was registered as a business name in 2007, by a small computer company business.
Taylor Swift flat-out stole her gaming app, The Swift Life … so claims a tiny computer company that is going after the singer in court. SwiftLife — a computer consulting company — claims it owned its name since 2007, and then Taylor came along and just jacked it.
SwiftLife is a one-man company and its owner, Patrick Benot, says he was never contacted by the singer or her reps … they just took it to launch the digital gaming experience app The Swift Life. Benot goes on to say Taylor and her people know full well about the ins and outs of trademarking products — she’s trademarked 64 items herself, so there is no excuse. Benot says her app has caused him endless grief … he has an email called help@swiftlife.com and it has been flooded with people confusing his little company with Taylor’s gaming app.
This seems to me like a pretty open-and-shut trademark issue. If it’s handled out-of-court, it will probably involve Taylor paying this guy to go away and paying him to hand over the rights to the trademark. But if he wanted to put up a fight, he could, because he IS right: Taylor and her lawyers know all about trademarks. They’ve tried to trademark everything from Welcome to New York to “this sick beat” and more. Weird that no one ever bothered to check the trademark on The Swift Life?
Here are some additional photos of Taylor in New York on Saturday. As I said, I like that we’re getting lots of photos of her again. But why is her style getting worse?!? Note the animal-print booties too.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid and WENN.
Yikes. Those are some seriously fugly clothes.
+1
This!^
Really, really bad.
This is what happens when celebrities try to dress themselves…😂
I really tried to understand how these clothes should make her beautiful? Taylor is a beautiful woman, but these clothes are just plain no
meh, if this makes her feel pretty more power to her.
90% of the things i wear my sister say its fugy. But i like them and makes me feel confident, well not after being told i look fat in it but yea.
Yikes…same first thought here!!!
That is the like the Jessica Simpson Jean debacle. That high waisted skirt ain’t doing her any favors!!!
Ah ah!
It just all looks so contrived on her.
Contrived, and like – not subtle. Honestly, are we supposed to think she is a subtle genius for wearing at least one cat-themed article of clothing every day the CATS musical rumors were in the headlines? Because it’s neither subtle, nor genius. It’s just contrived. I said it once before, years ago now, the artifice that is her life exhausts me.
Ha, I guess she got bored of being “private”. Girl is thirsty for attention.
She incapable of subtlety, you only have to look at the summer stunt 2 yrs ago to see that
And he waited a almost a year to sue????
Why not? Finding out about the app, thinking about if it is a case to sue, contacting a lawyer, inquiring and making case, probably weeks or months until it got accepted and publihed, etc. A year seems pretty normal to me.
Not everyone has lawyers on speed dial and the financial means to sue for petty shit.
For normal people and companies it takes a lot of time to get things like that rolling.
It probably took a year of negotiations to come to the point of legal action.
He’s a one man operation, so he probably doesn’t have the funds to go up against Taylor Swift and her army of lawyers on retainer. As my husband is fond of saying, “How much justice can you afford?”
I honestly don’t think he has much of a case. His company is named SwiftLife Computer Consulting, her game is call The Swift Life. There is even another company call Swiftlife Insurance agency. The insurance agency seem to be the oldest company.. so if he successfully sues TS, then couldn’t the insurance company sue him and TS?.
Anyways, they are not even the same type of business… soo.. yea
An app and a computer company providing providing apps not in the same business? Someone who gets mails from Swifties, because they can’t keep his company and Swift’s app apart, doesn’t have a case? I doubt he’d try to sue, if he didn’t have a case. As Sherry says, he knows he has to pick his battles pretty carefully.
of course they are not in the same business. TS’s App is a App about TS, his company is not an app. I can’t even find any app name swiftlife. His company is a physical location. He does computer repairs and consult on networking. Like he is the guy you wanna hire if you open a new business and want to network all your computers. How is a social networking app the same as a computer repair and consulting company in the same business?
LOTs of people sue even when they don’t have a case. You live in the USA… its in the news everyday.
I’m assuming some of that time was taken up by the trademark opposition/negotiation process. As in, at least part of the wait was necessitated by US trademark law procedures and not some opportunistic wait by the owner of a ten year old business to hurt poor widdle Taylor.
Also, to the other poster up there, please don’t insult people’s intelligence by claiming a game app and a computer company are not the same type of business. Forget law, that’s just nonsense logic.
i’m confused.. you think that a game app is not the same as a computer repair store? or you think that they are the same? O.o
She’s a perfect candidate for What Not To Wear. It would be a good episode if it’s still on the air. I’d grab her shoes out of the dumpster first though, after Clinton threw away everything else in her closet. *It’s a shame, she is long and lean and clothes would look good on her…if only……*
I miss that show..
All I gotta say is I went to her concert on Saturday night (bday present for my 9 year old) in the pouring rain at Met Life Stadium. She did not miss a beat. I wasn’t expecting much but she did put on a very good show despite the torrential rain and everyone had a great time (except for massive traffic jam leaving the stadium!). Stadium was packed too so not sure whether to believe those rumors that her tour wasn’t selling well. Although I guess they could have discounted tickets.
Her Instagram pictures (and pictures I’ve seen on influencer accounts) have all shown packed stadiums, so I’m not sure what exactly happened with the ticket situation. I suppose they could be strategic photos, but she usually shows the whole stadium.
That being said, I’ve seen the setlist and I’m not remotely interested. Almost all Reputation, and medleys of earlier hits. Nah.
I read a comment on ONTD from a poster who says they went to one of the MetLife shows and according to them there were sections that were empty. It’s hard to tell though because the empty sections are spread out in a stadium. A lot of the photos I’ve seen are taken at night and from a distance so if there are empty sections it’s hard to tell. She did have a hard time selling tickets in Manchester and Dublin and there were social media posts about lots of tickets being given away for free so it’s possible she gave away tickets or sold them at discounted prices for some of the North American shows. The tickets are a lot more expensive this time around so not selling out isn’t an issue for her anyway. I am really curious about what she’s going to do for her next tour, whether she’ll use the same ticket scheme since a lot of her fans were priced out of her current tour.
They gave away 5100 tickets last week to the NJ area Girl Scouts. There was little interest, so the GS councils tried giving them away as incentive to register for the next year.
It was NOT sold out.
My friend took her birthday daughter to the Jersey show and said the same. She said it was totally packed and the set was amazing. The tickets were insane but said TS delivered.
Leopard print reminds me of Peggy Bundys tacky style. Sweatshirts and booties in the summer are bad choices
Yes! That’s what this terrible outfit reminds me of: one of Peg Bundy’s get-ups.
Can’t stand Taylor Swift’s smug face. Barf.
Maybe her smug face is her RBF
You are so right! All she’s missing is the bouffant hair!
Was coming here to say Peggy must be her new style inspo because high wasted and animal print are all Peg
Peg worked that sh-t though. Taylor doesn’t have the swag.
I don’t do a lot of trademark stuff but isn’t it the case that for trademark infringement to have occurred the product or service is of the same class and a consumer may be confused? I realize that her game and the consulting company are both “tech” but I wonder if they are truly considered to be of the same class. No doubt the emails going to him when intended for the app are evidence of some confusion. Any trademark specialists here to weigh in?
that’s what i thought too….
I googled it and this is what i got
“Trademarks are not a name; a trademark is a name PLUS its goods or services. Therefore, trademark infringement analysis must include both.
For example (Example 1), one can have ACME for dynamite (say, Wile E. Coyote). If someone else wanted to use ACME for potting soil, that would be okay and would not present trademark infringement issues, since the buyers of ACME dynamite would most probably not think that a dynamite company would also sell potting soil.”
Sounds like the guy doesn’t really have a case and he’s gonna lose a lot of money…
Trademark lawyer here – can’t speak for the US (though I’ve gone through considerable amounts of US trademark data) but where I am, the goods need to be of the same class or an allied class in order to show risk of confusion/market dilution.
And when I say ‘class’, I mean the international classification of goods and services as used by WIPO and the USPTO – off the cuff, both of these sound like Class 42 issues (computer software/services) and it’d be easy enough to argue those are allied/liable to be confused. Also easy enough to verify that his registration actually exists, since USPTO trademark registration details are publicly searchable online, and often feature a date of first use in commerce.
Someone further upthread mentioned the Swiftlife insurance company as a potential reason why this guy shouldn’t win – frankly, unless Swiftlife insurance was engaged in the same class of business as this guy and had a pre-existing registration in the same class as his, that argument doesn’t hold water. They can well have the same name as long as they’re in different/non-allied classes.
Judging by reviews of this guy (seems like a nice guy all his customers loves him), he does mostly computer repair work. People bring in their laptop and computers for him to fix and he also sets up networks at business’s computers.
That sounds like he is more of a trademark 37 construction repair services – Computer hardware and telecommunication apparatus installation, maintenance and repair, installation, maintenance and repair of computer hardware, telephone installation and repair.
I guess he could still argue they’re connected/allied classes? Plus the emails are evidence of confusion, hope he kept copies!
Of course, this is assuming, as I did, that he has a trademark registration – if it’s just his company name (many small business owners might not bother to trademark their names), there’ll still be an official record of prior use but I don’t know about the trademark issue (any US lawyers here can clarify whether your country recognises prior use without registration of a trademark?)
I’m assuming this latest fashion turn for her is in relation to the next album which is supposedly going back to her country roots, so she looks all down homey and relatable.
It’s really awful. For her sake she should stop this now.
Agreed!
Wait, wasn’t she The Snake? Now she’s a Cat?
I can’t keep up…eyeroll.
The pap walks were cool when her outfits where Blair Waldorfs meets a scissor ( they were all short and too short), but now?
They are just butt ugly.
WTF was she thinking with that first outfit? A hooker at an Albuquerque truck stop looks classier!
The high waists make her look barrel shaped.
Yeah, that first outfit make her look lumpy in the middle when I know she’s not. Even the horrid hoodie and shorts give her a better shape than the leopard skirt. Her posture and smug expression ruin every look though regardless.
Maybe she really is barrel shaped and we just now picked up on it?
She dresses like she dances.
Spits out coffee with this comment. PRICELESS! Now off to clean keyboard.
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So perfect!
Why does she wear so much makeup with super casual outfits? It’s an odd look. That kind of makeup looks more like what you pair with a night out than daytime.
Also I never realized how sunglasses make her look better. Then I realized they hide her squinty eyes 👀
Her fashion sense is a little strained these days, but at least she is not anorexic looking these days. The 10 to 15 pounds gained this year have given her figure a boost, and her long legs are looking fantastic, as always.
I think she’s dressing like this because she’s gained a little weight & doesn’t know how to dress for her slightly different figure. Don’t get me wrong, her figure is fine & it’s good she’s enjoying having a personal life these days, but she looks to me like she’s trying to cover up a little tummy & doesn’t know how to do it well. The animal print, lace & tiny sunglasses just remind me of bad ‘90s fashion and I hate it.
How can someone with so much money dress so badly????
Awful. Horrible. Is this the result of a bad stylist? Like, has she had a stylist before and no longer does or perhaps did she just get one who hates her? I never understand these kind of people having just horrendous taste: Jessica Simpson, Paris Hilton, Hilary Duff (most of the time), I mean, they have ALL of the money, experience and access and STILL can’t seem to put together their own personality within their style. I know not everyone cares about clothes, and not everyone has to, but damn, this is part of their job, you’d think they’d at least have a cohesive set of ideas to use when dressing themselves for pap walks and obviously staged outings.
On the other hand, you don’t think she’s dressing “lumpy” because she’s trying to get some pregnancy rumors started, do you? Cause if nothing else, that would be straight up her style of behavior. She wore some cropped little thing the other day in a denim color which was flattering and not overly youthful, so she (someone) “knows” how to dress for her shape.
She’s gorgeous but that first outfit..it’s the only thing I’ve actually hated that she’s worn.
The second one is kinda cute and casual but the hoodie looks like something from a Times Square tourist shop but it’s balenciaga and costs $900
So far mainly not a good look…
Imagine if an alien visited the Earth and the first thing it was was a group of young girls screaming in joy as a woman silently and self-consciously makes her way to a car. It’s all so very odd.
I have always found her pap strolls to be so ridiculous. This is a city where Madonna wears a track suit and takes the subway and barely anyone notices or cares.
It wouldn’t be so odd to an interstellar visitor. “Lots of planets have a North.” And some of them undoubtedly have celebrities.
Even going back centuries on this planet — Homer was famous. Heck, Diogenes was famous, and he lived in a crockery. Celebrity is an inevitable epiphenomenon of communication and artistic expression in populations, i.e. of culture.
Nevertheless I’m sure any intelligent visitor from another world would ask, as we do, what she was thinking when she picked out those clothes.
When is the release date for cats? I think we are all going to be VERY tired of her animal print theme dressing.
Every human on the planet looks awful in these high waisted jean styles. It is one of those trends in which the testament to your figure is if you can look slightly less shitty than others in them. That’s the only possible win here. Swifty is not winning.
So she’s back to the daily pap walks in front of the apartment. Sigh… I enjoyed the little while she pretended to be private.
Also she’s a horrible actress. That’s it.
Oh, the clothes I would buy if I had half her money! But this is what she chooses to wear, she has the most horrible taste, looks really really bad.
Maybe her luggage got stolen in Pigeon Forge? If she busts out an airbrush T-shirt next, we’ll know for sure…😉
Gah! That’s some Florida Lot Lizard clothing for sure….no offense to any Lot Lizards out there…☺️