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it’s the Eau De Rose Cut Iris Diamond Hand Chain from Logan Hollowell

she wore something else by them back in september of 2023 and to a game later on that week at metlife, their Pave Diamond Trillion Toggle Choker

ooh a finger bracelet

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ooh a finger bracelet

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saw the chain ring has been identified by the brand and now i’m reminded she wore it to a game at the end of last year as well! it’s the Links Iconic Chain Ring from Kimitake

taylor wearing the ofira gold tattoo ring out in nola! i wonder what the other two rings are, i feel like i haven’t seen them before

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ofira gold tattoo ring again!

and the louis vuitton blossom ring

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taylor wearing the ofira gold tattoo ring out in nola! i wonder what the other two rings are, i feel like i haven’t seen them before

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taylor wearing a one of a kind ancient roman coin piece by Steven Battelle, which was listed on 1stDibs

i included a blurb about the coin found on the the listing, looks like Victory is depicted on the reverse.

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taylor wearing a one of a kind ancient roman coin piece by Steven Battelle, which was listed on 1stDibs

i included a blurb about the coin found on the the listing, looks like Victory is depicted on the reverse.

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taylor wearing the marquise diamond pave signet ring from jacquie aiche

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might this be something by shahla karimi?

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now a Cartier watch? 🥴 wasnt there an anon recently asking about Cartier?

yes there was! made a mini masterpost of it 😏

ironically, i didn’t mention karlie’s panthere watch but she does own one! here are some examples of times she has worn it

and here is what taylor just wore:

samesies!!

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oh hey i spy the gold tattoo ring from this pap walk a few days ago!

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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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taylor wearing the jacquie aiche small pave emerald center eye ring

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Hello! Just out of curiosity; was Karlie given a VS ring? What are the chances the one Taylor wears is actually Karlie’s?

hi anon! i had almost forgotten to post something about this that i’d recently confirmed, so thank you for sending this ask!

as a lot of you know, i’ve written a lot about this ring in recent years, and my response to this question has been that while the rings were given to victoria’s secret Angels (not temp hire runway models, but the more famous models contracted by vs to exclusively promote the brand), the CEO ed razek probably made an exception for taylor and gave her one as well as a means of maintaining a good business relationship with her

so recently @taylorrepdetective was at a bookstore and ran into some source material on the exact matter! here are excerpts from the book:

and so, just as we assumed, ed gifted her the ring!

i encourage people to read through the masterpost if you’re interested in why we consider it a kaylor symbol. but i’ll add a screenshot of an excerpt for convenience:

here’s the masterpost

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ran into this little thing at the market yesterday.

felt like the cloud offset pear ring taylor was wearing the other day so i was like aww and i snapped it up! …came to realize on the way home that the dip of the ring she has is opposite this one 🥴

but in my defense, the shape spoke to me 😜

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i always love jewelry design that conveys a story. and i get the sense that taylor is wearing this same ring again tonight that she did to the recent football game, so i thought i would include a little bit about it since the design description is interesting, and maybe taylor would find it interesting too.

it’s the Cloud Offset Pear Ring from Shahla Karimi, and according to the description, it is a part of a collection of pieces in tribute to Anish Kapoor’s untitled mini-bean sculpture at the bottom of the jenga tower in tribeca. which is itself a piece commissioned after anish completed Cloud Gate, or The Bean, as it’s known, in chicago. here’s some stuff about that sculpture and the tower.

so an object of art that commenced in 2008, and a design with origins in chicago, now built in nyc. and while The Bean stands in a wide open park, this mini bean here is symbolically propping up a tall tall jenga tower.

i think that’s a cool thing to have as a ring.

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taylor wearing the jacquie aiche eye and diamond kate bracelet combo again to the chiefs game,

and i believe i spy another one of her jacquie aiche rings and the ofira gold tattoo ring, too.