Taylor Swift is usually all about autumnal style, all about sweaters and cute cold-weather ensembles. But was unseasonably warm all up and down the East Coast last week, which might explain why Taylor wore this summery frock in November. Taylor was seen going into Chez Margaux in New York on Friday. According to the paparazzi, she arrived with security and met up with Zoe Kravitz and Jerrod Carmichael. Taylor, Jerrod and Zoe were at Chez Margaux for eight hours! Taylor looked a bit worse for wear as she left, so I kind of wonder if she was getting good and drunk after the election. I would not blame her at all if that’s what happened.
Taylor’s dress and purse are Vivienne Westwood, and she wore Aquazurra Twist 95 velvet sandals. As I said, very summery. I was in t-shirts and flip-flops all of last week too. We had two consecutive 80-degree days. Now, do I like any of this on Taylor? Not really. The dress is unflattering and it makes her look knocked up (it’s the way the corset is boned in the midsection). The combination of the dress and her hairstyle is very Germanic to me, like she’s about to serve beer at Oktoberfest.
In case you’re wondering about Chez Margaux, it’s a private, members-only club in the same vein as many exclusive members-only clubs in Europe, specifically England. It’s supposed to have a real European feel and decadent vibes. Inside the club, there’s a Jean-Georges restaurant, a sushi lounge, a caviar-champagne room and nightclub. Taylor has memberships to several of these private clubs in New York. Post-election, my guess is that Chez Margaux was one of the go-to places for sad, rich Democrats to drown their sorrows and socialize with somewhat like-minded people.
Meanwhile, the Grammy nominations also came out on Friday. Taylor’s The Tortured Poets Department got six nominations, including Album of the Year, Pop Vocal Album, and Record and Song of the Year (for “Fortnight”). Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter got 11 nominations, including noms in the big three: Record, Album and Song of the Year. Y’all know what that means… Beyonce’s once again losing the big Grammys to white artists, probably Taylor.
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- New York, NY – Taylor Swift heads to dinner at Chez Margaux in NYC’s Meatpacking District on Friday evening, enjoying a cozy catch-up with her gal pal Zoë Kravitz. Pictured: Taylor Swift BACKGRID USA 8 NOVEMBER 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – Taylor Swift heads to dinner at Chez Margaux in NYC’s Meatpacking District on Friday evening, enjoying a cozy catch-up with her gal pal Zoë Kravitz. Pictured: Taylor Swift BACKGRID USA 8 NOVEMBER 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – Taylor Swift heads to dinner at Chez Margaux in NYC’s Meatpacking District on Friday evening, enjoying a cozy catch-up with her gal pal Zoë Kravitz. Pictured: Taylor Swift BACKGRID USA 8 NOVEMBER 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – Taylor Swift heads to dinner at Chez Margaux in NYC’s Meatpacking District on Friday evening, enjoying a cozy catch-up with her gal pal Zoë Kravitz. Pictured: Taylor Swift BACKGRID USA 8 NOVEMBER 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – Taylor Swift heads to dinner at Chez Margaux in NYC’s Meatpacking District on Friday evening, enjoying a cozy catch-up with her gal pal Zoë Kravitz. Pictured: Taylor Swift BACKGRID USA 8 NOVEMBER 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – Zoë Kravitz is spotted leaving Chez Margaux in New York after an eight-hour hangout with Taylor Swift, sparking curiosity about their extended catch-up session. Pictured: Zoë Kravitz BACKGRID USA 9 NOVEMBER 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: JosiahW / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
I still can’t wrap my mind around the atrocity of that outfit she is wearing.
I like the shoes. That’s all I got.
Same – the shoes are gorgeous – but the rest…?
Same.
Me either. I find it hideous but I do like the shoes.
Sometimes you can sell what you can’t give away
I love most of her albums but TTPD and Fortnight are snooze fests. I hope something more interesting wins those Grammy’s.
another day, another terrible outfit on taylor swift
It’s like Taylor and Travis have traded fashion tastes. He was a flashier dresser before with interesting color mixes while she was more mundane and/or preppy. Lately, Travis is the more mundane one clothing-wise and Taylor has been dressing like this. It’s…interesting.
Yikes, that’s a really unflattering dress. It does make her look pregnant.
I’ve seen better at garage sales.
Taylor can afford to hire a stylist. Why doesn’t she?
This…is not great.
The shoes could be nice with a different outfit. But the dress has too many weird curves and shapes.
Maybe it looks better in person and the camera angles are doing her dirty.
The shoes are lovely but otherwise…the overall is oog. She seems to think she looks the bomb though which makes me smile. To her credit, she has her exiting-the-car-to-the-venue catwalk down solid.
Maybe she was there for so long because she was working a shift on the beer stall at their pop-up Christmas market.
I know taste is personal but it’s so rare I like her outfits and this to me is dreadful and unflattering. I can appreciate great clothes even if it’s not something I’d want for myself but so often her outfits just look bad. Maybe she and Blake share tips, it would explain a lot.
What even IS that dress? It somehow makes her look…squat?!
Not squat so much as massive, like the Statue of Liberty. Taylor is tall and slim – this makes her look tall and…not.
I cannot explain that outfit. I am not sure what she’s doing with her fashion. This looks like she has a really expensive dress up trunk at home. Not my favorite.
That dress looks like an art school mess, and unflattering.
She is beautiful with model porprtions why does it always look bad?
She just doesn’t have good style or styling. Some of the outfits could be saved with good styling. I love a red lip and bold black eyeliner, but on her it just…idk, looks childish? With her hair, it’s just the whole picture that’s off.
An 8 hour dinner?! I get having a leisurely meal with friends but 8 hours? That’s a work day not a dinner.
Well if there are different bars and a night club there they were certainly entertained enough
Honestly, 8 hours with my friends post-election in a space with no photos but multiple areas of entertainment. Yes please.
Brittney Mahomes and Taylor were gifted at last weeks Chiefs game with an extremely elaborately wrapped gift . Erin Andrews the sportscaster and Gracie Hunt the owners daughter have been working on a clothing line. I am dying to see what might come out of the box to
go on Taylor’s back today. If you have have seen Gracie it could be quite the show. Brittney is pregnant so she might be excused from the fashion parade but Taylor has arrived in KC.
I’ve never really liked Taylor’s choices. And this one was especially poor. Her designers are good but she always seems to go to the worst side of the rack of choices. They aren’t quirky Taylor – they aren’t good choices. Your stage outfits are better!
I’ve never really liked Taylor’s choices. And this one was especially poor. Her designers are good but always seems to go to the worst side of the tack of choices. They aren’t quirky Taylor – they aren’t good choices. Your stage outfits are better!
Although I have to add that maybe she dressed like how most of us are feeling these days !
Actually, I love this dress. It’s so audacious. And she carries it off well. Just my $.02
If I were 30 years younger and 30 pounds lighter, I’d wear the hell out of that thing.
But what gets me are the shoes. they’re gorgeous, but they probably don’t mix well with 8 hours of drinking!
Agree! I am sure the dress looks so much better in person. The sandals are gorgeous.
I love it too.
What an ugly dress! And it likely cost a bundle. Nope.
An 8 hour dinner?
How is that even possible?
Alcohol.
Expensive and designer doesn’t mean it looks good that’s for damn sure.
I think she’s trying to channel Wonder Woman. She’s letting us all know she’s going to save us from the fascist, oppressive, old men! 😉
I don’t think either album should win album of the year and I can’t believe fortnight was nominated! Once again another terrible outfit from Taylor. I think she does this on purpose to not have fashion as part of her brand
That dress is screaming “fashion student practicing with whatever scrap material they can find.” She’s too rich to dress this badly so consistently.
That dress is appalling.
And I hate to break it to you, but I don’t think she’s all that distraught over the election. She just likes the drink.
Thank you! I doubt Tay is all that concerned. If she really sweated the results she could have campaigned as numerous other celebrities did. I’ve spent the last year following her every move because I thought she was a powerful ally. Now she is no more to me than a gossip topic.
She was forced into that endorsement by the Variery Oped.
She’s a white cis woman with billions of dollars and more tax breaks coming her way. She’s got nothing to lose. Her allyship is performative at best at exploitative at worst.
I’d never heard the “I’m the man” song until after her endorsement when I gleefully started watching her videos. That honestly gave me hope, but yeah it all feels performative now. (I did hear her LGBTQ ally song when it was first released, and I appreciated it; I’m sure it speaks to many LGBTQ youth, and that’s what matters. But, historically, it has not been bad business for female pop stars to court the gay dance scene, so I didn’t necessarily assume she was committed to the cause at that point.)
That may be true or not true. But honestly, I will remember those who endorsed Harris.
Yes, it’s Wagnerian Rhine maiden steps out for a drink. I like the little bag and the shoes, but not together and not with this dress.
How does one make Vivienne Westwood, the Godmother of Punk, look matronly 😭 * Weep *
I like the dress. It screams Vivienne Westwood, but the shoes are all wrong. A chunky dress needs chunky shoes or boots.
I understand that these exclusive clubs are places to network and avoid the riffraff, but Tay doesn’t need to network and Manhattan is packed with riffraff free establishments merely by menu prices.
Maybe this is her “it’s so weird I love it” choice (and she knows full well how weird it looks, and wore it to get papped anyway).
Good point about being papped. The world love to see her and she thrives in the spotlight, so it’s mutually beneficial, but I have to wonder after two years of possibly being the most famous woman in the western hemisphere (and beyond?) how it might feel to have the tour end and the spotlight slowly shifting away.
If there was someone in Hollywood who could’ve had afford Law Roach before his retirement it was her but she never did. She’s a fashion lost cause.
I love Vivienne Westwood designs. But you need a certain degree of whimsy to pull them off if you’re not channeling punk. Taylor does neither in these photos, which is a shame because I LOVE the dress. Kaiser is right, she seems to be channeling Oktoberfest bar wench rather than, let’s say, Stevie Nicks.
As far as the Grammys go, I love that Gojira was nominated. Best album for hard rock/metal isn’t a throw away category this year (as it sometimes is). My little heart swelled with pride at my formative acts Green Day and Pearl Jam being nominated too. I don’t usually watch the Grammys at all, since it’s usually the Beyonce v Taylor award show with special guest star Adele for variety but I might tune in this year for the hard rock/alternative/metal acts.
I’d hate that dress on anyone but oh girl no.
Shoes and bag are cute. I wish she’d do something different with her hair.
She has terrible tease and/or her stylist hates her. I find this phase of dressing since Travis to be among her worst which is saying a lot. She is obsessed with corset tops and too tight mini skirts or shorts and then comes out with this tragedy. The only good thing about this outfit was getting a chuckle during the worst week ever…
Terrible taste I mean lol not tease
That dress is so ugly.
Beyoncé will probably get snubbed again but it won’t be in favor of Taylor. I did not hate Taylor’s album, but the Grammys will lose their last shred of credibility if they give her Album of the Year again. And I don’t think that Post Malone collaboration was well regarded or popular enough to justify giving her Song of the Year or Record of the Year.
Fortnight was one of my least favorite songs on that album, which I absolutely loved overall. I hope it doesn’t win song / record of the year.
OMG who dresses this women???????? This is the very worst so far.