How Taylor Swift Brought Her “Vision” For Her Very Personal Thigh Chain to Life at Grammys 2025

Taylor Swift has never been afraid to try something new, and at the Grammys 2025 Sunday night she did it again, donning thigh jewelry that she designed herself in collaboration with her go-to jeweler, Lorraine Schwartz.

Swift stepped onto the Grammys red carpet in head-to-toe red, seemingly a nod to boyfriend Travis Kelce, who is playing in the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday, Feb. 9 with the Kansas City Chiefs. Her sparkly one-shouldered Vivienne Westwood dress was complement by a suite of ruby-spangled Lorraine Schwartz jewelry, featuring over 60 carats of natural rubies throughout a pair of waterfall earrings and two rings, reveals a very personal bejeweled Easter egg adding another 15 carats of natural rubies to the total.

Swift donned a dainty golden leg chain draped below her dress’s hemline, studded with rubies. As it turns out, Swift and her stylist Joseph Cassell personally worked with Schwartz to design and execute the piece, which featured a teeny tiny letter T charm dangling from the end of one of the strands.

“She has ideas that she really wants to bring to life, and then we help her bring it to life in our jewels,” Schwartz told Vanity Fair, adding that Swift had a clear vision from the start for the chain peeking out from beneath the dress’s hem, letter charm and all. “It really was her collab with me.”

The charm was studded with rubies on both sides, and the warm, rosy gold of the chain played well with Swift’s skin tone, letting the detail be both subtle and notable.

Swift also wore Schwartz’s designs at last year’s Grammys ceremony, where she chose a dramatic choker with a watch face, surrounded with black diamonds, stopped at midnight in reference to her album Midnights, which would go on to earn Swift her record-breaking fourth album of the year win later that evening.

Though all involved have kept mum when it comes to confirming what that T stands for and the significance of Swift’s choice of red-on-red-on-red Sunday evening, there are some easy guesses to be had.

In her song “Guilty as Sin?” on her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, Swift sings, “what if he’s written ‘mine’ on my upper thigh, only in my mind”? Conversely, we wonder, what if Swift has found the most glam way to use that real estate to give Kelce a shoutout?

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