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Baseball hat and pigtails and simply gorgeous.

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She looks amazing!

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So, uh, I went back and watched the video and y’all… Taylor totally lightly kisses Karlie on the cheek and Karlie returns it by kissing her own hand and touching Taylor’s cheek. 😭

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My God, Karlie Kloss is so damn gorgeous!

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100% pure gorgeous

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I know that’s right 😍

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The very essence of pure beauty

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Absolutely the most gorgeous pregnant woman on the planet. #Karlie Kloss is a pure celebration of motherhood at its finest , proving once again that true beauty radiates love from within.

I ♥️ hot moms

Simply glowing

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NY city chic in Paris

The hottest of hotties

Timeless beauty

.she radiates love

Wishing you a happy, healthy and joyful birth experience.

May the angels watch over you and your babies.🙏🏻😇

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I bet the antis panic when Karlie dresses boyfriend and they see how androgynous she can truly be.

And she owns it so good. It’s so hot. Ahhh.

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dominoes

first, some prerequisite reading:

considering gold rush

considering mastermind

considering i think he knows

read it?

okay.

so i just have a little bundle of thoughts to share, i hope you will indulge me 🥰 if you’re new here these posts i do are just meant to be fun and sorta wild ideas. things sketched in pencil, not recorded in pen.

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so, if you’re a fan of karlie you may recall her youtube channel series, where a few years ago she discussed a few iconic moments from her career. in one of them, she tells the story of the Karlie Kut. as she tells it, karlie got called up by Anna Wintour in november 2012 and was told, hey, come and be a model for a haircut photoshoot, to be shot by Patrick Demarchelier. interestingly karlie herself explains the cut as if it was sort of out of the blue but that she took the chance and the gamble paid off. anyway. here’s the video:

and it was a big deal at the time for karlie to have gotten a short haircut because she was working for Victoria’s Secret at the time. and vs models (and i would assume this is especially the case with models contracted as Angels) just didn’t sport short hair back then. you can read a bit about her thoughts at the time here:

so karlie gets this iconic cut in late 2012, and then as we know, a year later taylor and karlie meet at vsfs on november 13, 2013 right?

well.

not too far after, taylor does a photoshoot and the cover of march 2014 glamour magazine (probably shot in late january?), shot by the very same Patrick Demarchelier.

(btw this is giving vogue kaylor photoshoot vibes, no?)

which you know okay, whatever, but no sooner than the march glamour magazine hits newsstands…. on approx feb 11 2014… taylor gets a haircut! and not just any haircut, but “a Karlie Kut”

then less than a month later they see one another at the vanity fair afterparty… followed days later by the big sur trip in early march…. and the rest is history 🫢

so let’s recap that.

(i’m assuming you read the prerequisites at the top of the post, but to summarize)

taylor lays eyes on karlie who is wearing a shiny gold dress at the may 2011 met gala and they briefly chat

then taylor hangs with anna wintour in september 2011 at a rodarte show wearing cottage core

for a seminal interview featured in vogue in jan 2012 in which she is described as having looked like a gold rush bride.

that magazine led to the infamous your kitchen or mine? karlie tweet, in the same month, jan 2012.

now let’s fast forward to nov 2012. karlie gets called by anna wintour to cut her hair for patrick demarchelier

fast forward another year. after taylor is finally introduced to karlie in nov 2013, she also does a photoshoot for patrick demarchelier

and then gets a Karlie Kut in the beginning of feb 2014

and not a month later she chats up karlie in the dark indigo lighting of the vanity fair oscar’s afterparty, at the beginning of march 2014

and days later taylor and karlie go to big sur. and before you know it they’re doing a best best friend photoshoot for vogue, their haydays are in full swing

so…dominoes.

what if gold rush’s with your hair falling into place like dominoes is more related to mastermind’s dominoes cascaded in a line than just by keyword alone?

what if taylor fell as hard for karlie as mastermind suggests? what if the pining started at the 2011 met gala, and what if, by the time 2013 rolls around and she finds herself in a position to do so, she actually orchestrated the series of events to follow? what if the karlie kut was a domino that fell into place for taylor? that would set the stage for her own haircut, not just the hairstyle but the mimicking of the circumstances by which it happened, as a way of making their stars seem more aligned, to make their connection feel more romantic. a sort of anne lister move, if you will. it becomes a series of things that make it appear as if destiny is bringing them closer. as taylor said, to make them love me and make it seem effortless.

there are some fun lyric connections i ran into:

the gold rush lines with your hair falling into place like dominoes and i can’t dare to dream about you anymore both foreshadow that shift to come, from taylor daydreaming over karlie to her actually laying out her plans and putting them into the actions that we see in mastermind.

and then of course we can all see how mastermind lines up so thematically with the 2013 victoria’s secret fashion show, with thematic nods to vsfs 2014 as well. the touch of a hand lighting a fuse of a chain reaction of countermoves being their snowy touch on stage, and the checkmate and pawn keywords connecting to the stage theming of their 2014 vsfs runway walk.

and i think he knows connects to this as well, with the “knowing” of ithk matching up with how it is revealed in the lyrics of mastermind that taylor’s lover knew the entire time that they were being courted. the architect drawing up the plans is also the mastermind. and if parts of the song indeed match the vanity fair oscar party before the big sur trip.. this whole progression of events fits nicely thematically speaking, i think ☺️

so yeah, idk, i’m just in love with these ideas! makes me wonder how many little things about the start of their relationship were nudged along by taylor herself, and reciprocated with delight by karlie. something about it is so sweet to me 🙈

a silly parting thought:

here’s me pinpointing the moment taylor got the idea to cut her hair just like karlie’s — in october 2013, when opening the taylor swift educational center 😆

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Can we bring back the discussion of how Karlie is literally in the ME! MV ????

This random "man" is the only person falling from the sky that gets a whole close up for seemingly no reason and "he" is not credited ANYWHERE.

This is literally Karlie Kloss in disguise

Her features may have been altered, but the position of her features were not!

Like it's so obvious???? It is layers of makeup and prosthetics. In general you can tell that's not even a man + the hair is a dead giveaway that it's a disguise. And not a good one bcuz the intention WAS to be obvious

And then Taylor literally disguises herself as a man in The Man just to drive the point btw

It's the prosthetic nose and chin + the changed eyebrows and wig in BOTH for me.

Adding this edit I came across after bcuz it is better than the one I used and UNDENIABLE

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#Karlie Kloss is gorgeous

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👁️👄👁️

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hey, i've seen a couple of times now, whenever karlie wears cartier love jewelry, they (gaylors) say "... she has matching with taylor", but i've only seen taylor wear it like once maybe

do you have a master post on cartier specifically, or if you could just clear it up a bit for me, where did that come from?

PS. I love the cartier love ring, is there anywhere I could find a dupe maybe? 😆

hi! i haven’t ever made a cartier masterpost for all the pieces, nor for just the cartier love collection pieces. so let me take this opportunity to give you a rundown! so first off, the facts, karlie owns a cartier love ring and bracelet (both of which she notably wore to eras tour, when she went to eras tour. did i mention, karlie went to eras tour? karlie went to eras tour.).

my understanding of where that wording from gaylors or kaylors comes from is that, it intends to point out that taylor has at times incorporated cartier love pieces into her work, which can be seen as a way of honoring karlie’s personal cartier love pieces, which are known to be very meaningful to her. we know they are meaningful to karlie because of things karlie have said—for example, karlie often talks in interviews about how she bought her cartier love ring with her first paycheck as a model.

karlie also notably owns a cartier tank watch (and more recently she’s been wearing a baignoire watch), and several cartier necklaces (amulette de cartier in onyx and cartier d’amour), and of course a cartier juste un clou bracelet (the one that looks like a hardware nail) which she’s had for many years as well. you can look through all the instances of all the pieces she’s worn over the years here.

i think that overtime this point about taylor wearing cartier has become a little bit blurred by shorthand kaylors or gaylors use, and people think it means kaylors are saying that taylor owns the exact same cartier love pieces that karlie does. that is something we don’t know. i am fairly positive we have not seen taylor wear cartier love pieces in candids or social media. you can browse a fairly comprehensive list of times taylor has worn cartier here.

but that’s not the point anyway, it doesn’t need to be, i would contend. it’s about taylor paying homage to karlie visually, and in a 1:1 way, by referencing items that are important to her.

all this being said, it’s worth mentioning that taylor has also repeatedly worn an agrafe herringbone necklace by cartier over the past few years, and she has worn other cartier pieces in public outings before as well, (including a juste un clou necklace) so i do think she likes cartier, and it’s pretty clear she owns stuff from cartier. (i would like to point out here that, there is a cartier photo book in the ME! music video, in their apartment. ME!, the music video about all the things that make taylor taylor.)

so it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine she might own pieces from cartier’s love collection as well, and that she’s simply never worn them. but again, the argument shouldn’t be allowed to be recentered on whether or not she owns the same pieces. rather, it’s about the iconography. cartier is meaningful both to karlie and holds a place in taylor’s world as well.

okay.

now to dive into the times that taylor has worn cartier love pieces. because i think that the times where she has worn cartier love pieces for photoshoots are noteworthy and meaningful in some ways. the two big examples are the rainbow dresses for the reputation album photoshoot, the album that is infamously referred to as being about karlie. and for the september 2019 vogue cover, which at the time many here had pinned as a potential tell-all coming out opportunity. that didn’t happen. (personally, i think that the inclusion of the ring on this cover photo is sort of like a… statement, as to why. (she’s setting off…but not without her muse)). both instances to me are noteworthy examples of incorporating pieces meaningful to karlie into moments in taylor’s career for which karlie played a pivotal role in taylor’s actions.

also, this is a little prequel content for you but, taylor is first documented wearing a cartier love piece in a cover for marie claire back in july 2010. which *pulls out calculator* would have been right before the very earliest that karlie could have bought the cartier love ring, based on the story she tells in interviews, as mentioned above. so there’s an invisible string for ya!

incidentally, this has happened again with another cartier piece. the amulette de cartier! taylor first wore one for elle magazine june 2015. karlie then famously begins wearing a small onyx one in 2018, and again during the pandemic in 2020.

anyways it’s (cartier is) just one of these things that if you’ve been paying attention to kaylor for many years, you’ve come to see as a kaylory brand. because of these various connections, the meaning imbued in the pieces by cartier and then of course with how meaningful taylor and karlie both say jewelry is to them 😌

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11th letter of the alphabet : K

EZB

92

Guess whose name starts with a K, has Elizabeth as a second name and was born in 1992.

And whose nickname is Kar (car).

(K)arlie (E)li(Z)abeth (K)loss, born in 19(92).

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Just extraordinary❣️

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This is incredible

Karlie Kloss is THEE Super Model

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Hate to say it but Karlie might be out of Taylor Swifts league. I mean, with Taylor’s recent behavior it looks like shes stuck at 16 and in bed with the NFL,while Karlie has matured into an intelligent, thoughtful and absolutely gorgeous woman.