Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss are doing the twinsies thing on the March cover of Vogue. The shoot is by Mikael Jansson – you can see the full slideshow here. The theme is “best friends’ roadtrip” and the photos are really good. Like, this is one of the best editorials I’ve seen from Vogue in a while (possibly because Mario Testino and Annie Leibovitz had nothing to do with it?). As for the BFFs interview… it’s very girly. It’s very cutesy. Maybe it’s because I’m too old for Swifty’s charms, but I found much of the cover story to be, in a word, cloying. I also had a clique of really close girlfriends in my late teens and early 20s – many girls do. It’s a college thing for a lot of young women. But I feel pretty strongly that this is just Swifty’s latest phase, and she will outgrow it like so many other women before her. But for now, these friendships are the most magical thing EVER!! Some highlights:

Why Swifty started developing a group of girlfriends: “To the way people were overreacting to my life. I was really irritated by the whole serial-dater play that people tried to make about me. I just decided I wasn’t willing to provide them that kind of entertainment anymore. I wasn’t going to go out on dates and have them be allowed to take pictures and say whatever they wanted about our body language. I wasn’t going to sit next to somebody and flirt with them for five minutes, because I know the next day he’ll be rumored to be my boyfriend. I just kind of took the narrative back. It’s unfortunate I had to do that. And it’s unfortunate that now I have this feeling like if I were to open myself up to love, that would be a career weakness.”

Taking the year off from dating: “This last year has felt very different than any other year of my life. I’ve felt more settled and unapologetic about who I am and what I stand for. I think that might be one of those symptoms of growing up and becoming your own person, and depending less on other people’s opinions of you. I just hope that keeps going—because I’m liking it.”

Whether she’s a Mean Girl about letting people into her clique: “I want to make the table as big as possible, and I want everyone to sit with me.”

[From Vogue]

Swifty also talks a lot about her clique’s diversity, like she’s hanging with brain surgeons or something. Like, she’s BFFs with Lena Dunham and Karlie and Selena Gomez and she also hangs with Jaime King and Lily Aldridge and Kylie Jenner. Which actually doesn’t sound all that diverse, you know? Swifty’s BFFs are almost exclusively models or entertainers and the crowd is 98% white and rich.

Ugh, this video is super-annoying. I couldn’t even finish it.

Photos courtesy of Mikael Jansson/VOGUE.