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“Fortnight” music video | April 19, 2024

Elena Velez Fall 2024 skirt

In authentic Victorian fashion, this black ensemble Taylor wore was actually separates and not a dress. Her waxed denim jacket as previously posted was by Unttld and this ruffled skirt by Elena Valez from her Fall 2024 collection which only debuted this past February.

Elena told Laird Borrelli-Persson for Vogue that her “purest objective as a brand is to really bring a lost Midwestern woman back to the American cultural narrative.” Her desires in this collection were to bring a “more multi-dimensional representation of womanhood, good and bad; one that accepts the difficult, complicated, ugly truth of being a woman as part of the beauty that makes us whole and complete and 360. It’s a character journey that sometimes goes through an antagonist journey, but ultimately resolves itself with meaning and goodwill.” I frankly can’t think of a better ethos to match an album that centers much of its narrative on Taylor exposing wounds many of which she describes as “self-inflicted.” 

It’s my suspicion that TTPD is not an album that will be, nor was designed with the intention of, understood or liked by the masses. To my ears (and still overwhelmed brain feeling like I’ve absorbed an encyclopedia of words across these 31 songs) this is an album for ‘Swiftie scholars’ who have the time, space, and devotion to wade through the heaviness of an album this dense and complicated. And that’s okay! When Taylor described this album as one that she needed to make, now that we have it I interpret her meaning as her willfully confronting and hurdling over the elephant in the studio with her. Addressing the “how did it end?” questions that will plague her as soon as possible and structuring it in an album messy, complicated, and strewn with all her most vicious thoughts about the last year of her life in order to get out from under the weighted blanket of those expectations, clearing a path for her next LP to be constructed in clearer air. 

Worn with: Unttld jacket


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“Fortnight” music video | April 19, 2024

Anita Ko ‘Diamond Loop Earrings’ - $5,900.00
Anita Ko 'Diamond Huggies with Round Diamond Drops’ - $3,800.00


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“Fortnight” music video | April 19, 2024

Celine Spring 2024

There’s truly nothing more intrinsic to the lore of Taylor Swift and clothes in her music than going out into a storm in her best (sparkly) dress. Lots more to dissect in the video (and this entire body of work).

Taylor hasn’t worn much Celine outside of a few photoshoot spreads over the years so this is also a fun designer pull to see.


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“Fortnight” music video | April 19, 2024

Vivienne Westwood ‘Frill Shirt’ - €590.00

I’ve thought a lot about the colour palette of the world that Taylor has created with Poets and how it’s one of the most distinguishable things about the Tortured aesthetic we’ve seen so far. Enough so that it’s usurped her beloved (and endearingly noted ‘fuckass’) Olympus yellow candid filter with a drained out world to paint all of her latest social media posts with. To me there’s a lot to wade through there when it comes to black like grief or the poetry of Dickinson-esque shades of white and subsequently all the shades of grey the album itself covers. 

But what a delight it is to see a Vivienne Westwood piece on Taylor! I know many of us briefly thought both of the white gowns she’s worn recently were by her so it’s great to see her finally in her wares. This particular long shirt is from the mens line.  


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“Fortnight” music video | April 19, 2024

Unttld ‘Victor Ruffle Waxed Denim Jacket’ - no longer available

There’s so much to dissect in Tortured Poets and beyond into the new visuals for the “Fortnight” music video. Those thoughts, of course, to come. But off the top it feels apt to note the striking modernization of Victorian fashion on display with this piece, particularly of poet Emily Dickinson (Taylor’s distant cousin - genealogy is wild). While Dickinson herself wore a lot of white (which as we’ve seen is TTPD’s assigned eras colour), there’s something to be said here about the similarity it strikes with the custom Teuta Matoshi dresses her backup dancers wear during “my tears ricochet” on the Eras Tour as they march behind her in a funeral procession. Equally, it calls to mind the somber wear of Victorian mourning clothes - widows would often wear black for two years.

This particular piece comes from Unttld’s Fall 2021 collection, noted by the designer as a fulfillment of “19th century fantasy”.


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“Fortnight” music video | April 19, 2024

Vintage brooch ℅ Joseph Saidian & Sons jewelry

In another fashion reference to the night of the 2024 Grammys when Taylor wore a Concord watch converted into a choker by Lorraine Schwartz which then seemed to be used as a tipping point between eras, Taylor wore a diamond vintage brooch by #JosephSaidianandSons that was converted into a necklace for this #ClaraBow-esque makeup moment (the thin, drawn-on brows here feel very ‘30s).

Taylor previously wore one of their vintage bracelets at the 2023 MTV VMAs.


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“Fortnight” music video | April 19, 2024

Maticevski ‘Candescence Gown’ - $5,510.00

Note that I’m working from low res screenshots but my best guess so far of this gown is this one by Maticevski. Of course, my greater thoughts are to come once we’ve fully absorbed both the music and the video this look is attached to but I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the obvious similarities between this sculptural strapless gown (comprised of meters upon meters of crisp, crinkly cotton and arranged in this artful, marble statue-like draping) and the Schiaparelli gown Taylor wore to announce The Tortured Poets Department at the Grammys.

This particular gown is from the brand’s Spring/Summer 2024 collection - its name of course to me is most reminiscent of the worn ‘candescent’, meaning to glow.


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