2016: Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn Get to Know Each Other
May 2016: The pair reportedly met at the Met Gala. Swift's song "Dress" — which is rumoured to be about Alwyn — notes that when they first met, he had a buzz cut and she had bleached hair, which was around the time of the star-studded gala.
June 2016: Shortly after the Met Gala, Swift broke up with her boyfriend of over a year, Calvin Harris. Two weeks later, news broke that Swift was dating Tom Hiddleston when they were spotted kissing near her Rhode Island home.
September 2016: After three months of dating, Swift called it quits with Hiddleston. According to reports, she "was the one to put the brakes on the relationship" because "Tom wanted the relationship to be more public than she was comfortable with."
November 2016: Two months after her breakup with Hiddleston, a newly single Swift was spotted attending a screening of Alwyn's film "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" in LA with Este and Alana Haim and her mother, Andrea Swift.