In promotional art for her latest album, The Tortured Poems Department, Taylor Swift has released a new era of fashion for herself, embracing a dreamy, historical style. For her Spotify visuals, the star wore a romantic Lally silk dress in white by Khaite from their pre-fall 2023 collection, posing in the spaghetti strap gown with her hair down and holding a single rose.
On April 19, Instagram account @taylorswiftstyle, run by Sarah Chapelle, shared the look, which features a ruched bodice and flowing asymmetrical skirt.
Different songs show Swift modeling the dress in various poses, all in black-and-white. It’s visible in “But Daddy I Love Him,” “Robin,” “The Prophecy,” and “Clara Bow.”
Swift been seen in the Khaite label before.
She was wearing one of their leather skirt’s on a date with boyfriend Travis Kelce in October, 2023.
And she included a shot of herself wearing Khaite’s Frances Top in black lace from the pre-fall 2022 collection in a carousel of images promoting the new album on Instagram. In the picture, she's laying down on a bed with her arms over her head, presenting the top's lace pattern.
“The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time—one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure, ” Swift wrote in the caption. “This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”
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