--- title: The Taylor Swift-Karlie Kloss Friendship Is Alive and Well description: Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss aren't letting rumors bring their friendship down. canonical: https://time.com/5379104/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-reputation-tour/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-27T16:55:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:32.258Z og:title: The Taylor Swift-Karlie Kloss Friendship Is Alive and Well og:description: Kloss made an appearance at the Reputation tour og:url: https://time.com/5379104/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-reputation-tour/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75857db9591e5cf1/698938c7ab6d771f7c6b383e/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-friendship.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Taylor-Swift-Karlie-Kloss-Friendship og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Taylor Swift-Karlie Kloss Friendship Is Alive and Well twitter:description: Kloss made an appearance at the Reputation tour twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75857db9591e5cf1/698938c7ab6d771f7c6b383e/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-friendship.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Taylor Swift-Karlie Kloss Friendship Is Alive and Well on the _Reputation_ Tour > Sponsored content. 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Taylor Swift performs as model Karlie Kloss walks the runway at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show at Earls Court on December 2, 2014 in London, England. Karwai Tang/WireImage  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 27, 2018 4:55 PM UTC [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/5367874/taylor-swift-sexual-assault/) and [Karlie Kloss](http://time.com/money/5348438/karlie-kloss-engagement-ring-cost-joshua-kushner/) aren’t letting rumors bring their friendship down. Despite speculation that the pair had [bad blood](http://time.com/4932012/taylor-swift-music-video-director-says-beyonce-copied-bad-blood/) after Kloss’ name appeared to be missing from a squad-decorated shirt that Swift wore in the [“Look What You Made Me Do” video](http://time.com/4918411/taylor-swift-look-what-you-made-me-do-music-video-references/), the Victoria’s Secret model came out to celebrate Swift at Saturday’s Nashville stop of the Reputation Tour. Fellow attendees even shared footage of Kloss filming herself jamming out at the concert. “LOOK AT HOW PRECIOUS THIS IS,” one fan captioned a video of Kloss singing along and dancing to “Blank Space.” > [](https://twitter.com/d0dgedabullet/status/1033592030742626309) Kloss herself also took to social media to praise Swift for her performance with a photo of the two posing together backstage. “No one puts on a show like [@taylorswift](https://www.instagram.com/taylorswift/),” she captioned the shot. “[#ReputationTour](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/reputationtour/) Nashville was out of this world, I am SO proud of you.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5379104/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-reputation-tour/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5379104/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-reputation-tour/"},"headline":"The Taylor Swift-Karlie Kloss Friendship Is Alive and Well on the Reputation Tour","datePublished":"2018-08-27T16:55:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:32.258Z","description":"Kloss made an appearance at Swift's Nashville concert","url":"https://time.com/5379104/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-reputation-tour/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Taylor Swift","karlie kloss"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75857db9591e5cf1/698938c7ab6d771f7c6b383e/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-friendship.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75857db9591e5cf1/698938c7ab6d771f7c6b383e/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-friendship.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Taylor-Swift-Karlie-Kloss-Friendship","caption":"2014 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show - Runway","creditText":"Karwai Tang/WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5379104/taylor-swift-karlie-kloss-reputation-tour/","name":"The Taylor Swift-Karlie Kloss Friendship Is Alive and Well on the Reputation Tour"}}]}] ```