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Out and about | New York City, NY | September 8, 2024

Gant ‘Wool Blend Trench Coat’ - $1,000.00
Gucci 'GG Supreme Sleeveless Mini Dress’ - $3,170.00
Louis Vuitton 'Louise PM Earrings’ - $575.00
EF Collection ‘Diamond Mini Huggie & Prong Set Chain Stud Earring’ - $850.00
For Future Reference ‘Vintage 1970s Ancient Bronze Coin Necklace’ - $12,750.00
Wove Made x Michelle Wie West 'Custom Diamond Tennis Bracelet’ - $5,680.00 (starting)
Lizzie Mandler ‘3 Row Cleo Bracelet’ - $18,300.00
Tiffany & Co ‘Diamond Wire Ring’ - $2,675.00
Jacquie Aiche ‘Large Marquise Diamond Pave Signet Ring’ - $6,250.00
Gucci ‘Horsebit Shoulder Bag’ - $4,300.00
Gucci 'Horsebit Leather Sandals’ - $920.00

Someone got a haul of Gucci recently and decided to wear it all in one fell weekend. It’s not uncommon for Taylor to be brand loyal and to wear a slew of things from a single designer many times over, consecutively. Think FP, Ref, or Stella McCartney. Even Vivienne Westwood and Gant as recent examples. These are brands Taylor has worn back to back for years. Taylor also turned to Gucci a lot in reputation’s years, particularly for its iconic kingsnake motif. I can’t imagine it given Taylor’s hesitancy to take on an official fashion label endorsement contract, but I can’t deny she and Travis have donned a lot of matching Gucci recently. It has raised my brows, esp as logo-heavy items aren’t typically something Taylor wears, but not enough to think an official contract is underfoot. Rather, I think it’s a choice to make for a sequence of cohesive back to back public outings. I’d even be willing to believe it was setting the stage for a Gucci red carpet at the MTV VMAs on Wednesday.

If I were to nitpick styling, as someone very Pro Sandwich Style, I can appreciate the matching accessories coordinating her purse and sandals. As a neutrals lover, I also love the combo of black + brown. That said, upon first glance of this ‘fit sans coat I originally thought keeping both of her Gucci accessories from the US Open earlier for a pop of colour + tonal coordination with the dress’ leather details would have served this outfit well.

Luckily, this is a time when the coat becomes greater than the sum of an outfit’s parts and works as the key to bringing all of the disparate elements together. The addition of the darker (almost black, from a distance) buttons on her trench did just about enough to bring the bag and shoes into a clearer, more intentional light.

Illustration by Amelia Noyes

Attending the US Open | New York City, NY | September 8, 2024

Reformation ‘Sora Linen Dress’ - $248.00
Crap Eyewear 'The Marquee Rox’ - $99.00
Louis Vuitton 'Louise PM Earrings’ - $575.00
EF Collection ‘Diamond Mini Huggie & Prong Set Chain Stud Earring’ - $850.00
Foundrae 'Heart Sealed Gemstone Crest Rose Gold’ - $2,050.00
Wove Made x Michelle Wie West 'Custom Diamond Tennis Bracelet’ - $5,680.00 (starting)
Lizzie Mandler ‘3 Row Cleo Bracelet’ - $18,300.00
Jacquie Aiche ‘Large Marquise Diamond Pave Signet Ring’ - $6,250.00
Retrouvai 'Rubellite and Diamond Ring’ - no price listed
Retrouvai 'Magna Ring’ - $3,210.00
Gucci ‘Jackie Notte Mini Bag’ - $3,980.00
Tiffany & Co ‘Diamond Wire Ring’ - $2,675.00
Gucci 'Horsebit Detailed Platform Leather Sandals’ - $1,100.00

While some wondered if Taylor would appear at any NYFW shows this week, a sporty outing to watch a fellow American Taylor (Fritz) in the US Open final is just as fun. And such great symmetry! The gingham print of this dress is sweet and breezy. It calls to mind picnics on the grass, apple pies, and Americana. In other words, a wholesome and summery piece to wear when supporting an American athlete. Love!

The brand is also a longtime Taylor staple. She’s been wearing Reformation pieces since 2012!

Taylor has been on a bit of a Louis V kick as of late, adding these monogrammed earrings to her latest run of pieces that have included two bags and a pair of boots.

Among Taylor’s style pillars include the art of the high/low (mixing high end designer pieces with more approachably priced items) and indie designers. To my eye, it looks like Taylor has added a new eyewear brand to her collection - the humourously named Crap Eyewear which are founded and designed in Los Angeles, CA.

Taylor’s jewelry was, once again, a lot of repeats. Pieces that she’s worn and loved and had in her jewelry box for awhile. Both bracelets seemingly haven’t left her wrists since she wore them to the Chiefs vs Ravens game last week. The #Tiffany ring was an addition she wore on the Eras Tour stage during the first round of dates in London. The #Foundrae crest necklace was worn back in January of this year. Set into a crest, this collection for Foundrae is a celebration of love in all its forms including romantic, platonic, and self. Taylor’s discography, of course, famously “a love letter to love itself” which makes this a perfect piece for her. 

The Retrouvai pieces are also familiar. The ‘Magna’ ring Taylor wore to the Super Bowl earlier this year. The heart ring you might recognize as from the “I Bet You Think About Me” music video which Taylor’s friend Blake Lively directed. This ring also just so happens to be Blake’s. It was a bespoke commission as part of the brand’s Heirloom collection and comprises an 8-carat heart shaped rubellite set off with a halo of 2.5-carat diamonds. Designer Kirsty Stone described Blake as a “true jewelry lover” and the “incredible” opportunity it was to design something for “her personal collection.” 

For a coordinating pop of red against her gingham check dress. This was a cute pairing! You might also recognize this bag from the London candids in June.

Photo by MediaPunch/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images

Out and about | London, England | June 23, 2024

Gucci ‘Horsebit Slide Sandals’ - $920.00 (similar is linked)

This brand combination is a great nod to her Style Pillars - the high/low. Mixing a designer piece (particularly an older, repeated one that she first wore back in 2019 in the “You Need To Calm Down” music video) with a newer, ‘accessible’ piece is a key part of what keeps Taylor’s style relatable and interesting for fans.

Worn with: VRG GRL dress and Stella McCartney bag

Out and about | London, England | June 11, 2024

Gucci ‘Signoria Slingback Pump’ - $1,150.00

I’m of course always going to be a supportive of a minimalist strappy heel, especially in a ravishing shade like this that also gets its own sandwich style moment with the Gucci bag Taylor also carried.

Worn with: Stella McCartney coat + bustier + pants, Lorraine Schwartz necklace, and Gucci bag

Illustration by Amelia Noyes

Out and about | London, England | June 11, 2024

Gucci ‘Jackie Notte Mini Bag’ - $3,980.00

While I must of course +1 the sandwich styling of rouge accessories by Gucci between her bag and shoes the accessory I’m sure most are hung up on is that Lorraine Schwartz choker.

Taylor introduced this during the 2024 Grammys, the night she announced TTPD as she was receiving an award for Midnights. The item merges two key aspects of their respective eras - time as a thematic concept and a nod to Victorian fashion - in a way that feels appropriate to the whiplash of TTPD. Perhaps more than any other era, I dwell a lot on the abruptness of TTPD and how swiftly it careened into our lives. While amongst her musical peers, she chose to turn a night about celebrating the industry at large (and a previous body of her own work) into a personal launchpad for new music. 

I think what defines TTPD, inherently, is its disruptive quality. This album and its songs are what they are because of the nature of events that upended her world. Its rollout, in correlation, has been equally as vertiginous. 

So what does it mean to bring this key accessory back? A new TTPD music video is my top guess. But perhaps we’ll know for sure in Liverpool tomorrow night!

Worn with: Stella McCartney coat + bustier + pants, Lorraine Schwartz necklace, and Gucci heels

Illustration by Amelia Noyes

Attending Coachella | Indio, CA | April 13, 2024

Gucci ‘Rhyton Sneaker’ - $1,050.00

To complement her subdued, low-key black and white outfit Taylor opted for coordinating Gucci sneakers.

Worn with: New Heights hat and Stella McCartney bag

Photo by Gilbert Flores via Getty Images

Out and about | Los Angeles, CA | April 12, 2024

Gucci ‘Luce Small Shoulder Bag’ - $3,200.00

Taylor doesn’t often carry Gucci bags - though she’s had a few in her collection over the years. Among them include a red flap shoulder bag in 2015, a black top handle crossbody in 2017, and a Diamante belt bag in 2019.

Worn with: Vintage jacket

Illustration by Amelia Noyes

Out and about | New York City, NY | January 9, 2024

Gucci ‘Half Horsebit Almond Toe Boots’ - $839.86

Worn with: Stella McCartney coat, Stella McCartney dress, and YSL bag

Also worn: September 8, 2023

Photo by Gotham via Getty Images

2024 Golden Globe Awards | Los Angeles, CA | January 7, 2024

Gucci gown

Let it be known my Roman Empire is painted a shade of aurora borealis green. 

I’m biased. I love it. You’re buckling up for a rave. But everyone knew that, right? 

I want it on record that no one should be surprised when they see this lewk on the TSS Favourite Outfits of 2024 list. And that I’ll devise some maniacal strategy to make it make sense to include in every annual list from here to eternity.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way in that this shade of green could easily be interpreted as very snakelike and thus a nod to reputation and its forthcoming re-recorded version. I’d even happily apply it to the teal-y and springlike green of debut if we want to go debutation on this.

But if we are to talk about Gucci we have to talk about the precipice the house is upon right now. As it relates to Taylor, I suspect her dress (specific shade TBD - Chartreuse? Apple? Pear? Some other adjacent fruit that’s a feast for my eyes?) is a preview of Fall 2024 and a clear indicator of the path the new creative director Sabato De Sarno’s will take the brand in. Which is to say, muting the eccentricity of Alessandro Michele’s era of Gucci that brought the brand to a new level of renown in favour of something cleaner and sexier. Nicole Phelps for Vogue already noted that De Sarno’s first collection for Gucci — Spring 2024’s Ancora, meaning ‘again’ in English and released in September — evokes a Gucci when Tom Ford was once at the helm, praising De Sarno’s approach to “the upfront sex appeal of those ’60s-by-way-of-the-’90s shapes, and straight riffs on Ford hits” while “establish[ing De Sarno’s] essentials, focusing on cut and proportion, and repeating shapes for emphasis.”

Indeed, Taylor’s gown is directly reminiscent of a Fall 2004 look from Ford’s Gucci - all green sparkles and sexy disco energy. This makes sense when we consider De Sarno’s history and homeworking when he decided to take the creative director post. He told WWD, “Gucci to me equals luxury … the first fashion piece I ever owned was a Gucci jacket by Tom Ford. I still remember I traveled to Rome to buy it with my friend … luxury was really not part of our world. Television was the only way to see fashion for me back then.” He added, “My ambition is to build an aesthetic message with an edited collection that is mindful of Gucci’s heritage and close to my own aesthetics.”

When we consider my personal history with Taylor and Gucci, I don’t have to look very far to immediately picture one of my all time favourite Taylor looks — the 2014 Grammys when she wore a sparkling Gucci Première column gown which is not too dissimilar to this one. What can I say, I’m consistent. The shape, the perfect kiss-the-floor hemming, and obviously the divine colour that really pops on Taylor will have me swooning for a long time. 

At the end of it all, what I come back to is De Sarno’s sentimentality to naming his first collection: Ancora. Again. He told WWD, “Ancora is a word that you use when your desire is not over yet … I want to fall in love with fashion all over again — ancora.” In the same interview he said, “I like words a lot, they have weight and a precise meaning, they convey emotions, so I like artists who use words.” 

It dawns on me that Taylor’s light is shining at its brightest now as she highlights, celebrates, and - indeed - falls in love with all the versions of herself she has ever been. Revisiting her eras past again. And again. In every re-record. In every step she takes on stage. In every cutting line she writes in ruminating and revisiting the experiences of her life and translating them into song. She’s flitting, flirting, memorializing all her past selves in celebration of their summation of her current self. And that’s what this ‘era of eras’ has been. 

So if this is De Sarno’s Gucci I say welcome. Ancora. 

Photos by Monica Schipper/GA and Amy Sussman via Getty Images

Out and about | New York City, NY | September 8, 2023

Foundrae ‘Sister Hook Choker’ - $6,365.00
Foundrae 'Forever & Always A Pair Oval Pendant’ - $1,450.00
Sandy Liang ‘Paris Skort’ - $625.00
Louis Vuitton 'Camera Box Bag’ - $3,450.00
Gucci 'Half Horsebit Almond Toe Boots’ - $905.42

One thing I love about this outfit is the tension of shapes and textures. The soft, angular swoop of her asymmetric top, knife pleats of her skort, and the sharp boxy lines of her LV camera bag all create certain, strong lines. These all work in direct contrast to the mussed, textured curls we see here that prevent it all from being too put together and polished.

I’m not one to look a gift skort in the mouth, so I won’t be reading into the “Paris” Easter Egg of it all. Especially one as chic as this. Any outfit defined by some sharp pleats and black is perfect in my books.

Let us instead admire how the confidence of an inner pair of shorts has given us all the gift of Taylor’s killer legs thanks to short hemlines.

If I had to, and could, copy and paste an outfit in its entirety on my body from recent Taylor history - it would be this one. At my core, I’m a girl who loves neutrals and polish served with a side of edge. And you all know I’m a proponent of the sandwich style (that is, to match two elements of an outfit between a contrasting colour).

Just add a blazer and we’re golden.

Get the look: Emory Park skort, $56.00 and Gap boots, $134.00

Attending Jack Antonoff’s wedding | Beach Haven, NJ | August 19, 2023

Larkspur & Hawk ‘Olivia Button Earrings’ - $1,200.00
Cartier ‘Agrafe Herringbone Twisted Necklace’ - $27,250.00
Erdem 'Melora Ruffled Lace Corset Dress’ - $3,935.00 $1,967.00
Jacquie Aiche 'Rose Cut Round + Marquise Finger Bracelet’ - $7,600.00
Gucci 'Crystal Kid Scamosciato Mallory Slingback Sandals’ - sold out

What one can guess is the ceremony day, Taylor opted for a beautiful pale blue dress by Erdem. This feels like a vamped up daytime continuation of the lace two piece from the night prior. Adding a bit more length and replacing a scalloped hemline with a similarly textured ruffle detail is an A+ lesson in styling for the slideshow and building recognizable, repetitive motifs. Note to wedding guests if you need to plan multiple lewks over the course of a wedding weekend. This particular dress also maintains some sultry energy thanks to the moulded bustier-like cups and fitted bodice.

On the accessory front, to know me is to know I’m a fan of strappy, minimalist sandals. These ‘Scamosciato Mallory’ slingbacks are that while also being fun thanks to the crystal embellishments. Extra applause for going tonal with her accessories for a cohesive look.

Electric Lady Studios rooftop | New York City, NY | April 12, 2023

Gucci ‘Lion Head Crystal Ring’ - $450.00

Worn with: Rouje earrings and Vintage sweatshirt

Out w/ Jake Gyllenhaal | New York City, NY | November 25, 2010

Gucci ‘Unisex 100% Wool Striped Scarf’ - no longer available

Quite possibly Taylor’s most famous accessory, noted in her scorching ballad “All Too Well”.

The search for this scarf - and the requests for it - was renewed when Taylor announced RED (Taylor’s Version) was coming in November 2021.

And I’m happy to say: It’s been found! AT LAST.

Get the look: Banana Republic, $46.99

“willow” music video | December 11, 2020 

Gucci ‘Liberty Floral Print Maxi Dress’ - $5,900.00

While this dress is obviously a little more prairie and old-fashioned than my personal preference, it obviously fits the theme of the music video itself incredibly well and it’s an absolute joy to see her in other brands again. 

And also, of course, greeeeeeeeeeeeeeen 

Get the look: ASOS, $51.10

Miss Americana | January 31, 2020

Gucci ‘Short Sleeved Guccy-Logo Maison De L'Amour T-Shirt’ - $590.00 (no longer available)

Worn with: Wildfox sweatpants and Golden Goose sneakers

Also worn: Reputation Tour Meet & Greet, Kansas City