Not long after Taylor Swift attended a charity auction in Las Vegas with Travis Kelce, Swifties have identified her Reputation-coded green dress—and it may be time to start preparing for the next re-recording announcement.
Per Taylor Swift fashion expert Sarah Chapelle (@taylorswiftstyled), Swift wore Maria Lucia Hohan’s “Regina” dress ($2,405) to support Brittany and Patrick Mahomes at a benefit gala for the 15 and the Mahomies Foundation. Swift was spotted holding hands with Kelce, who told attendees that his “significant other” would be auctioning off four tickets to the Eras Tour (those tickets allegedly sold for $80,000).
But let’s get back to the “Regina” dress (which Swift can be seen wearing here). “I’m sure somewhere locked inside my brain are smarter words to say about this dress but the only one I can summon up is greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen,” Chapelle captioned her Instagram post about the look. Green, of course, is one of the colors that fans closely associate with the Reputation album—but that may not be where the Rep connections ends.
All the way back in 2014, Katy Perry ignited her infamous feud with Taylor Swift by tweeting, “Watch out for the Regina George in sheep’s clothing.” While there is no more bad blood between those two pop stars, Swift later appeared to drop a couple of Mean Girls references into her 2017 Reputation track “Look What You Made Me Do.”
And who does that song (allegedly) target? Kanye West and his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. Much of Reputation grapples with Swift’s public “cancelation” over leaked clips from a phone conversation with West. “It’s a goth-punk moment of female rage at being gaslit by an entire social structure,” she said of the album in her 2023 Time Person of the Year interview. “I think a lot of people see it and they’re just like, ‘Sick snakes and strobe lights.’”
She continued, “You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar. That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”
If you think it’s a stretch to connect the name of Swift’s dress to one of her albums, take it up with Taylor Swift. Not long after The Tortured Poets Department was released on April 19, Chapelle discovered that Swift had been hiding multiple TTPD easter eggs in every day looks for at least six months, including Anthropolgie’s “Aimee” claw clips and Saint Laurent’s “Cassandra” shoulder bag.