Swift On Time 100 List, New Face of Cover Girl

Swift's Cover Girl photo shoot

Taylor Swift is cementing her celebrity status with news this week that she is the latest face of Cover Girl cosmetics. The brand with worldwide recognition has a long history of using only A-list females for its advertisements. Swift will be representing a new luxury product line, and joins other current Cover Girl superstars Queen Latifah, Ellen DeGeneres, Rihanna, and Drew Barrymore. The 20-year-old just finished the photo shoot for her first advertisements which are scheduled to debut in January 2011.

Swift has also been chosen as one of the TIME 100, the news magazine’s list of the people who most affect the world. Swift’s profile piece was written by Stevie Nicks, with whom Swift collaborated on this year’s GRAMMY Awards. She is on the list alongside a range of icons, celebrities and personalities including Oprah Winfrey, Barak Obama, Simon Cowell, Lady Gaga and Sandra Bullock.

Taylor Swift photo essay by Christopher Morris / VII for "TIME"