Taylor Swift is an amazing songwriter wbk but she also has these little idiosyncrasies that are so *her* like the intentional whisper of ‘old habits die screaming’ and how she cuts off ‘how dare you say that it’s -‘, and how ‘so long London’ mimics the chime of Big Ben, and this goes back, mind you. the lyric ‘my stolen lullabies’ trails off like she was choked saying the last word (that lyric deserves it’s own essay but I digress), and she begins Last Kiss with 27 seconds of instrumentals for -reasons- and just. She’s not just a songwriter, she really is just incredibly talented and creative on all fronts, we just got lucky that she chose music as her baby.
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.