The Story Behind Taylor Swift’s Wedding Guest Jewelry—and Their Roots With Elizabeth Taylor
Cry her eyes violet at a friend’s wedding in Brooklyn, Taylor Swift may have done—all while wearing a suite of opal and gold jewelry once owned by her idol and muse.
Reported by Vogue.
Taylor Swift showed up to a friend's wedding in Brooklyn last weekend looking like she'd raided a vault — because, in a sense, she had. Spotted with Travis Kelce heading into Honey's in Bushwick, Swift arrived in a shimmering gold Maria Lucia Hohan Allar silk cut-out dress, Aquazzura sandals and clutch, her Kindred Lubeck old mine cut engagement ring on her finger — and, for the first time publicly, a complete Darlene De Sedle 22K gold and opal diamond suite that once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor.
The set — chandelier earrings, ring, and bracelet, unmistakable in their pastel opal sheen and sculptural form — has a lineage worth knowing. According to Vogue, Taylor purchased the jewelry in 1999, and it remained in her legendary collection until Christie's auctioned it off in 2011 as part of a record-breaking $156.7 million estate sale, one of the largest celebrity estate sales ever recorded. The suite sold for roughly $6,000 that day. It later resurfaced on 1stDibs with a price tag of $125,000. Swift has been quietly wearing individual pieces — the ring and bracelet surfaced at a New York dinner last month — but this marked the first time the full set has been seen together since the auction.
The Elizabeth Taylor Obsession Is Well-Documented at This Point
The Hollywood icon is the muse behind Swift's The Life of a Showgirl era, and the jewelry is practically a running thread. Her 2025 "Elizabeth Taylor" music video featured a 33-carat Krupp diamond — the one Richard Burton famously bought Taylor in 1968 — alongside a 19th-century diamond tiara Taylor wore to the 1957 Oscars and a Cartier ruby suite. Swift is not alone in mining this archive: Margot Robbie wore Taylor's heart-shaped Taj Mahal diamond Cartier necklace while promoting Wuthering Heights, and Kim Kardashian walked the Balenciaga fall 2025 couture show in Paris in Taylor's diamond pendant earrings, on loan from Lorraine Schwartz.
Meanwhile, Kelce — dressed in a sleek Fear of God blazer and dark sunglasses — completed the couple's coordinated, quietly intentional aesthetic. The two have been photographed around New York and London in tailored, often matching looks since announcing their engagement last August. The wedding timeline is, by all accounts, imminent.
The real question now isn't whether Taylor Swift has exceptional taste in jewelry — it's what she's wearing when she's the one getting married.
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