MTV Video Music Awards | September 11, 2024
Dior Resort 2025
Lorraine Schwartz earrings
Stuart Weitzman ‘Ultrastuart Maverick Leather Boots’ - $1,550.00
Dior’s latest cruise collection was an ode to Scotland and the house’s first runway show held there in 7 decades. Creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri said of her inspiration, “Scotland is an important reference in the fashion world and I wanted to interpret it in a different way. For my generation, it’s so associated with punk.” The result was an offering full of voluminous skirts, dramatically cinched dresses, and hourglass jackets rendered in historically accurate tartans and, indeed, set off with certain punk sensibilities thanks to studded leather accessories and clompy buckled boots.
The VMA dress code typically leans towards the wacky and the outrageous. Hence why Taylor has felt comfortable appearing in alphagetti soup baby onesies (aka The Incident, circa 2014). I’ll put it on record again and again that I may pull a face at that look (and still do, a decade later) but I will always appreciate a risk (relative to the wearer). Fashion should be fun!
The collection filters Scotland’s most historic women into its fabrics. Namely, Mary Queen of Scots: a fiery Sagittarius woman I’d like to think Taylor might feel kinship with. During her years of imprisonment in England by QEI, Mary would insert veiled - often political - symbols into her embroidery. At one point even the phrase, "In my end lies my beginning" was embroidered into her state's clothes. Doesn’t that feel, “In the death of her reputation, she felt truly alive”?
In his review of this Dior runway, Mark Holgate for Vogue described the collection as one that “drew on the geopolitics of fabric[s …] and the way [Mary] gave political commentary through her embroideries.” He described the series as full of “defiant beauty and an equally defiant energy. It felt uncompromising. But then maybe women can’t afford to be anything but that, especially now.” If a possible connect, I admire this evocation in the wake of Taylor’s major political endorsement. Especially given Chiuri worked with the iconic Harris Tweeds for their artisan, loomed wool. This teed her up nicely for an onstage call to action to remind viewers to register to vote.
All-in, this felt like a cohesive night of looks to underpin TTPD’s aesthetic. The runway’s interplay of proportions and bustier-like top are very TTPD - sensual, emboldened, playing with what to reveal and what to hide. A look that’s dark academia adjacent.
I do find the biker gloves (also by Dior) confusing and I’m searching for insight on their ‘why’. At the Grammys, I could buy into the ‘Albatross’ reference in her black elbow-length gloves. These? I’m still trying to make sense of. A straitjacket allusion, perhaps? Were I to make some styling tweaks, I would have removed the gloves, opted for the coordinating tartan shorts from the runway, and changed the boots out to an equally tall but caged style to tie into the patterned effect of the ensemble.
Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris via Getty Images
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66th Annual Grammy Awards | Los Angeles, CA | February 4, 2024
Lorraine Schwartz jewelry
It shouldn’t be a surprise that Taylor turned to her go-to jeweler Lorraine Schwartz for her Grammy jewelry. There’s a lot to unpack here between the necklace stacking (an accessorizing choice she’s been opting for a lot even in her personal street style) that combined with the pushed off bangs and texturized hair reminds me a lot of the bathtub scene in the “Look What You Made Me Do” music video.
The biggest talking point of course is the Art Deco watch by Concord that was custom inset into her Lorraine Schwartz choker. As Taylor hit the red carpet, she was heard affirming with her team that it was correctly set to midnight. The watch also appears to be operational as it’s continued ticking throughout the night.
Worn with: Schiaparelli gown and Giuseppe Zanotti heels
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Bey at Lorraine Schwartz & Ofira Sandberg's Holiday Party at Blind Dragon in Los Angeles, 12.16.2019
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WHERE: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Costume Institute Annual Gala
WHEN: May 5, 2008
Lorraine Schwartz Earrings, Ring and Bracelet - Sold Out
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Beyoncé, Oscars Gold Party (3/10/24).
She is wearing custom AW22/23 Givenchy, and 200 carats of Lorraine Schwartz jewels.
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