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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

Out and about | London, England | August 12, 2024

Vivienne Westwood ‘Cut Off Jacket’ - $1,395.00
Vivienne Westwood ‘Wizard Frill Shirt’ - $760.00
Vivienne Westwood ‘Cut Off Skirt’ - $960.00
Vivienne Westwood ‘Tuesday Mini Bag’ $690.00
Sézane ‘Georgia High Mary Janes in Pistachio’ - $230.00

This marks a second time Taylor has made a direct pull from the VW FW 2024 lookbook. Like her previous look, shared by Brittany Mahomes when they were in Amsterdam, Taylor sought to diverge from the designer’s styling through her choice in footwear. The VW team styled this look with thigh-high red socks and tonal red platforms. Taylor instead opted for a Christmas Clueless-meets-Austin Powers aesthetic with crisp white socks and olive mary jane heels that bring out the green tones in her tartan set. I think the choice works to create a cohesive colour palette and makes more sense for the warmer weather in London. And also greeeeeeeeeeeen.

I personally love seeing the difference from in how a garment ultimately gets worn as a street style look it demonstrates an individual’s POV. The power of styling is everything! While a copy + paste of a campaign look is fun to see (esp for the designer kick of it all!), I think it’s most fun when someone brings that ‘styling’ element to a look and can depart dramatically from the designer’s original vision to give us their take on an outfit. I actually could imagine Taylor keeping the socks but opting in for those mary jane pumps and ditching the fussy shirt underneath for a simple tee or tank. If this were taking place in cooler temps I could also imagine a turtleneck and tights with heeled booties.

Taken in isolation, this is a great shoulder season look that, while not my personal taste, bridges the short hemlines and cute heels of summer with an autumnal palette and layering via the frilly white shirt. It also continues the connection between TTPD and VW. A signature of this era so far has been the corseted look, something that VW played a huge role in modernizing and integrating into their brand house codes.Taylor has worn many VW pieces for this era including while performing songs from TTPD on the Eras Tour.

This is Taylor’s first physical appearance since her trio of shows in Vienna, Austria were cancelled due to planned threats of a terrorist attack. Taylor has not commented thus far on these cancellations. According to reports, this appearance in London was following a party for Eras Tour staff ahead of her final string of shows at Wembley which conclude the European leg of this tour.

Illustration by Amelia Noyes

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

Stella McCartney ‘Pinstripe Wool Coat’ - $2,200.00

The angular way her pinstripe coat falls reminds me of the Westwood jacket she wears during “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart”. The single button, sharp lapels, and curved hem seem to mimic the high/low shape of that jacket. If intentional, it’s a great way to bridge fashion and connect her street style with her stage style.

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

Illustration by Amelia Noyes

On vacation | Lake Como, Italy | May 17, 2024

Palmer//Harding ‘Solo Trench’ - $1,258.00

Over the years of identifying Taylor’s fashion I’ve also noted a few key pillars of her style: repetition, high/low, and indie designers. The latter is present here with this new-to-her brand Palmer//Harding, based in London.

While I believe a trench to be a timeless wardrobe classic, this particular one is cut a little special. You’ll notice the more voluminous silhouette and wider sleeves that create a more relaxed look. Or in Taylor’s case when belted that mimic the fit/flare of the LBD she has on underneath and slides in neatly with her go-to feminine style.

Worn with: Cartier necklace, Versace bag, Olympus camera, and Versace shoes

Get the look: H&M, $99.00

Illustration by Amelia Noyes

The Eras Tour | The Tortured Poets Department section | Version 2

Vivienne Westwood custom
Christian Louboutin custom

When it comes to the three versions of this set we’ve seen thus far I think the white does the best job at conveying the feeling of being stripped naked for the amusement of a live audience and integrates well into the leached starkness of the world she’s established in TTPD.

Photo by Kevin Mazur/TAS24 via Getty Images

The Eras Tour | The Tortured Poets Department section | Version 3

Vivienne Westwood custom
Christian Louboutin custom

In my predictions post for TTPD costuming on the TSS Patreon I had guessed that lingerie might play a theme, based primarily on the album’s official visuals as well as the ways physical intimacy is portrayed across the album. Noting, “While I don’t necessarily expect a Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (Taylor’s Version) I also wouldn’t be surprised if … lingerie-like pieces make its way into her [TTPD] wardrobe.” This metallic bustier and hot pant set by #VivienneWestwood is around what I was expecting but as with a lot of things within the #TTPD set, it comes with a dose of bitterness. 

For her final number in the TTPD set, Taylor gives a rousing theatrical performance of “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart”. It’s thoroughly entertaining. It’s sardonically meta. It’s theatrical sarcasm.

The addition of the coat and tails reminds me a lot of her very famous ringleader costume from the original RED Era. Just as much as it did then, it feels like Taylor acknowledging the figurative circus that surrounds her celebrity and how, whether masterminding arbiter or unwilling performative participant, she is at the center of it. 

Full review of the TTPD set to come on the TSS Patreon! 

Photo by Kevin Mazur/TAS24 via Getty Images

The Eras Tour | The Tortured Poets Department section | Version 1

Vivienne Westwood custom

For my own predictions post guessing at tour designers for The Tortured Poets Department set on the Eras Tour I noted: “When it comes to designers, I feel Vivienne Westwood would excel at this assignment.” The theatricality, the dramatics, the corsetry, the Britishness of it all (that cavalry / Black Parade moment). It’s the perfect style match and I’m so happy that Taylor and team fully hit the nail on the head when it came to selecting the right design partner for this moment.

The white colour of the gown ties into the established colour-leached palette of #TTPD while also adding to line of similar white gowns she wore for the 2024 Grammys announcing the album and in the album’s lead single music video “Fortnight”. There’s of course the wedding gown comparison, particularly for the way the skirt seems to mimic the gathers of a bride making a harried exit after being left at the altar. The way her lyrics are scrawled all over the garment also seems to combine Taylor’s emotive vulnerability in wearing her heart on her sleeve (and centering the ownership of her work) while also reading a little like the scribbling psychosis from The Shining when a single phrase was repeated in a typewritten manuscript. A part of me wonders if there will be additional variants of this skirt with other TTPD lyrics as we saw on the backs of the different album variants and Taylor’s grief playlist titles.

It also feels notable to me that this is an area in Taylor’s costuming that is absent of her signature sparkle. Sequins aren’t just a glittery aesthetic that Taylor loves to wear, but they also serve a function for stage to draw eyes to a performer and catch the light. In the same way she’s said that she can show us lies when “the lights refract sequin stars off her silhouette every night” in bravely going on stage every weekend amidst trying to heal a broken heart I also think there was a lot of catharsis and healing in performing these songs, her proudly owned body of work, for tens of thousands every weekend.

Photos by Kevin Mazur/TAS24 via Getty Images

The Eras Tour | Lover section | Version 5

Versace custom bodysuit and blazer
Christian Louboutin custom boots

Like we were (new outfits) in Paris! After about four fortnights off, Taylor brought the Eras Tour back for its European leg in France. And with this new leg comes a handful of setlist changes (sections moved! songs omitted! Tortured Poets added!) and, more importantly, costume changes.

The first of course is a new tequila sunrise-y bodysuit, boots, and blazer ensemble for the opening Lover set. This particular version makes five variants for this portion of the show.

One of my favourite moments in the Eras Tour is how the Lover set seems to fulfill Taylor’s original vision of a summer festival moment (that we likely would have had with the sadly cancelled Lover Fest) and that its colourways seem to mimic that of a sunset.

Photo by Kevin Mazur/TAS24 via Getty Images

“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”.

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

Vintage ‘Urban Lapel Jacket’

Taylor was spotted out to dinner this week in a look that, to my eye, wouldn’t be out of place in a top box at Arrowhead Stadium. Though off-duty from her football spectator activities, this outfit has all the hallmarks of Taylor’s sporty aesthetic uniform she leaned on and we became familiar with when cheering at Travis’ games during the 2023-24 NFL season. The ‘fit comprises a Chiefs-appropriate red/white varsity-style jacket on a black base (inclusive of a short denim hemline) and finished off with heeled ankle boots (and I spy a cute Gucci bag - the red strap detail ties in nicely to the jacket).

While I have my mind fixated on TTPD visuals and the aesthetic of this era, a look like this feels like a subconscious signal boost to the public of her present reality. It bears remembering that Tortured Poets is an album a minimum of 18 months in the making - based on Taylor’s admission that conceptualizing for it began almost immediately after she submitted October 2022’s Midnights to her label. I think about that key fifth stage in the process of grief, Acceptance, and how different Taylor’s life must look like now on the other side of the lifeline I’m sure Tortured Poets presented for her creatively and emotionally. And this outfit feels like the very embodiment of those significant life changes and leaps into love she’s made since April 2023. 

On a fashionable note regarding the brand: I’ve seen a few questionable retailers with this jacket’s stock info as part of its inventory offerings and all appear questionable to me - hence my choice to mark this piece as ‘vintage’ at least for now until I’m better able to certify the brand in question. Funnily enough, the last time that Taylor made an appearance at this particular strip mall establishment (a charmingly non-descript celebrity favourite in a tucked away, unexpected venue) she was wearing an H&M top that also had retailed in dubious seller markets that I won’t name here but you’re familiar with likely for their fast fashioned foibles). 

Illustration by Amelia Noyes

Partying at the Wynn Hotel | Las Vegas, NV | February 11, 2024

Amiri custom jacket

This time, the jacket around her shoulders is his. Heading out on the town to celebrate the Chiefs Super Bowl win, Taylor borrowed Travis’ custom bouclé sequin jacket by Amiri which is riffed from the brand’s SS24 collection. Founder and creative director Mike Amiri told WWD, “The look is very much our take on modern tailoring, with a cropped jacket and baggy trouser, here made in a black bouclé fabric woven with paillettes to celebrate the showman that he is.”

When it comes to Taylor, she’s no stranger to Amiri pieces having worn a number of them during the reputation and Lover eras. I also wonder if a bit of coordination happened here between the both of them rocking black and silver embellished looks.

Photo by Mike Kirschbaum

Super Bowl LVIII | Las Vegas, NV | February 11, 2024

Wear by EA ‘Bomber Jacket’ - $140.00

Leading up to the Super Bowl, many TSSers have asked for a predictions post of what I thought she might wear. Truthfully? I didn’t think one was necessary. Not because the occasion isn’t a huge and momentous one - but because Taylor’s Super Bowl style has followed such a reliable formula that a predictions post felt like oversetting expectations. We love a ‘work’ uniform created in mind for a setting. And in Taylor’s ‘rookie season’ of sportsball spectatorship, she’s developed a great one.

With that, my predictions heading into this day was something black, red, with a touch of gold and a ton of sentimental value to it. Which is what we see on display here.

The combination of a black base + WEAR by EA jacket + black bustier top to me immediately harkened back to her third game - Broncos vs Chiefs on October 12 (check stories for a micro Fashion History with TSS lesson). But within this outfit itself, there are other great throwbacks to other moments in Taylor’s evolution as game day observer.

The bustier references the Balenciaga one worn to the aforementioned game, but that also bears similarities to the Versace one worn during the #killahardlaunch from October 14 when Taylor and Travis first appeared on the streets of NYC following Taylor’s cameo at SNL that night.

The embllishements harken back to the blue distressed shorts she wore to her second game on October 1 which were by the same brand (as were the butterfly jeans she wore in that first post-split candid back in April) and the colour to the dark wash Ksubi shorts she wore to her very first game on September 24.

Ending her season in this manner, with callbacks to both her style and relationship journey, feels intrinsically Taylor who has leveraged her style over the course of this season to center smaller designers (especially female-owned ones like #WearbyEA or ones local to KC), in Chiefs-oriented colours, formulated into casual but chic game day outfits that befit someone happy to be an enthusiastic spectator.

Worn with: Stephanie Gottlieb pendant and tennis necklace, Shay necklace and bracelet, The Last Line earring, Shahla Karimi + Shay + Retrouvai rings, Dion Lee top, Judith Leiber clutch, Area pants, and Christian Louboutin boots

Chiefs vs Bills | Orchard Park, NY | January 21, 2024

Gant ‘Blank Canvas Project x Kilo Kish Bouclé Varsity Jacket’ - $1,800.00 (sold out)

Rather than opt for actual Chiefs merchandise, Taylor opted for one of her go-to outerwear brands in Chiefs-approved colours that also included some stars (do u like dem?). I’ve found that on a number of occasions opting for Chiefs colours in otherwise normal street style garments has been her strategy for away games.

This particular jacket was part of a trio of designs Gant executed in collaboration with artistic talents as part of their “Blank Canvas Project” campaign. The concept being to “[transform] the quintessential symbol of American Sportswear into wearable works of art.” The artist in question, Kilo Kish, said the “inspiration behind [her] design was Ivy League culture” - an extension on the themes she explored on her album American Gurl. As with much of Gant’s ethos, the brand’s objective to create modern pieces that are not only heirloom quality but that riff on Americana athletics is such a natural integration into Taylor’s game day style. The added bonus is that each of the Blank Canvas designs had 100% of its sale proceeds go towards a charity of the artist’s choosing - something I’m sure Taylor could get behind having done her own share of philanthropic donations on each of the stops on the Eras Tour.

Kilo added when designing the jacket, “When people see the jacket, I want them to feel the playfulness and I want them to feel like it’s personalized and almost homemade looking.” That homemade feeling has been a personal touch also present through Taylor’s game day fashion. Where, in a world of seemingly endless options, Taylor has shown a level of care and intention to opt for small businesses (local to KC or women-owned) or items that are handmade (Kristin Juszczyk’s jacket and Kut the Knit’s crocheted beanie as just two examples).

As for the ‘CTFL’ on the jacket - my best guess (as confirmed by the artist themselves) is the FL is a reference to Kilo’s home state of Florida and the CT to Gant’s headquarters in Connecticut. Which is also paid homage to in Gant’s FW 2023 collection with varsity jackets honouring New Haven, Connecticut and its Ivy League school Yale that Kilo also wore in campaign imagery for Gant.

Out and about | New York City, NY | January 18, 2024

Gant ‘240 Mulberry Street Tailored Coat’ - $1,700.00

If indeed intentional, this sandwich styling moment is not only a repeat (one of Taylor’s key style pillars) but a smart repeat that creates an immediate Fashion History callback moment.

The last time Taylor wore this coat was to the Chiefs December 10 game against the Buffalo Bills. The Chiefs happen to be playing the Bills again on Sunday as part of the playoffs (where I assume Taylor will also be in attendance in one of the boxes at Highmark Stadium).

Worn with: The Row dress, Manu Atelier bag, and The Row boots

Also worn: December 10, 2023

Photo by Gotham via Getty Images

Dolphins vs Chiefs | Kansas City, MO | January 13, 2024

Kristin Juszczyk custom jacket

Many people have wondered when Taylor would wear an 87 jersey at a game and I’m delighted that the moment has come in such a fashionably fun way courtesy of #KristinJuszczyk - wife of 49ers player Kyle Juszczyk - who has taken to repurposing old jerseys into fabulous custom coats like this one.

To opt for something creative and lovingly handmade has been a repeated approach in Taylor’s football spectator style that has been fun to observe. From vintage, local KC businesses, women-owned small businesses, or handmade items like this one. “It’s time we reinvent the jersey,” Kristin said to NBC. “All these people want to represent their favourite players so what better way to turn a jersey into a jacket” especially when temps plummet. As someone well aware and well versed with communicating through her style I love the intention she’s taken to highlight and carve a space for stylish game day pieces for women. Items that are fashion and function and fandom and football and and and.

Worn with: Manu bag and Christian Louboutin boots