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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.

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this ring comes from Mindy Mond NY’s Clarity line of pieces. the Clarity Eternal Band. it’s event jewelry but i thought the naming was fun ☺️

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i think this is the closest in my life i will ever come to feeling like i’ve received federal funding and the blessings of the estate itself for an historic albeit chronically online archival endeavor

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hey whats that bracelet karlie wore recently in the pap pic with the grey sweatshirt?

oh anon!! now that you mention it, she was wearing a jacquie aiche finger bracelet!

which is fun because taylor wore a jacquie aiche finger bracelet to jack’s wedding last year as well!

and she also wore a jacquie aiche body chain that weekend. annnnd also, she wore the same body chain to karen elson’s wedding 😌 what a fun little loop of symbolism

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looks like she’s wearing this combo of rings again!

she’s worn the same combo the same way before, here’s an example that we got pictures of in april

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a very clear look at the Heart Sealed Gemstone Crest from Foundrae, worn to the 2024 US Open.

a fun note that because we have such a clear look this time, i think it’s safe to call that she has the gold version (not the rose gold version). the gold version is currently not available, but here is a link to the rose gold one!

either way, i am still not over the crest of it all 🙈

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taylor wore many many pieces to the first chiefs game of the season. her stylist has identified all the pieces for us so after a little consideration i thought i would keep tabs on / take note of the following three

first, and what i think caught everybody’s attention, she wore a 1970s Ancient Bronze Coin Necklace as curated by For Future Reference, most recently as part of a collection on display at Bergdofs in NYC.

for people itching for a closeup, sadie sink has worn the necklace for a photoshoot in the past, and you can get a better look at the coin here:

next are these earrings from Three Stories Jewelry, with a really cheeky name— Single Long Love Explosion Starburst Charm earrings. the themes are theming.

and then from Retrouvaí, the Cushion Ruby Impetus Interlocking Puzzle Ring, which had the most delectable of descriptions. “puzzle shapes which represent that we are each individually part of a much larger picture […] the idea of purpose and drive. what gets you up in the morning.” this ring really speaks to me 😌

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karlie wearing a bracelet from catbird’s “sweet nothing” collection, circa a photoshoot that she did for the february 2017 edition of lovewant magazine

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taylor wearing the jacquie aiche eye bracelet during the I Can Do It With A Broken Heart music video

(and i’ll make an educated guess that she’s wearing the 7 diamond kate bracelet as well as she often wore them as a set, though it’s a little hard to tell)

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taylor wearing the Rhiannon necklace from awe in the behind the scenes footage from the I Can Do It With A Broken Heart music video

she has worn other pieces by awe before, most memorably the Le Duo necklace 😌