Out and About in London
Worn On: 6/11/24 // London, England
the commentary
During the North American leg of the Eras Tour last summer, Taylor often returned to her home base in NYC. Now on the European leg of Eras, I had been wondering when we’d see her pop in London. The days ahead of her U.K. dates seemed like a fitting time as any. And oh is she saying things with this ensemble.
Opting for Stella McCartney pieces while out to dinner with the designer and in said designer’s home city makes sense to me. The fact that she’d opt for something dark, sensuous, feminine, and with bustier / lingerie vibes feel on par for Poets fashion.
Though I think opting for either the bustier or the pants would have been great, who am I to deny Taylor a matching set moment - as was originally styled in the SM Resort 24 collection.
Opting for Stella McCartney pieces while out to dinner with the designer and in said designer’s home city makes sense to me. The fact that she’d opt for something dark, sensuous, feminine, and with bustier / lingerie vibes feel on par for Poets fashion.
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.
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.
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!
the clothes
Feature Illustration by Amelia Noyes