From the Group Chat: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement, Zoë Kravitz’s Love Life, and Sabrina Carpenter’s New Album

EDITOR’S NOTE

Happy Sunday. Fall always feels like a new beginning (probably because I’m still a nervous high school student at heart), and these Saturday Night Live departures (this one devastated me the most) are only ratcheting up my Adult New School Year anxiety. To soothe my nerves, I’ll:

• Ponder this Gilmore Girls x Vera Bradley collab that gives serious teacher’s pet energy. 

• Actually purchase this Zoë Kravitz-approved white t-shirt upgrade. If only I hadn’t gotten rid of my Limited Too version all those years ago…

• Text my friends incessantly about the Taylor-Travis nuptials (more on that below). Specifically, which fashion house she’ll choose to design her dress (my bet is on #2).

• Bake this absolutely foolproof, barely-any-effort pumpkin maple muffin recipe. Thank you, Alison Roman, for this complete and utter crowd-pleaser.

— Alex Carr / Editorial Director / Brooklyn, NY

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Fellow Americans, our royal wedding is finally upon us. On Tuesday, Taylor Swift and the guy on the Chiefs announced their engagement via a joint Instagram post in which Travis Kelce knelt to the ground (perhaps on the wrong knee?) and pulled out an old mine diamond ring. Office workers shrieked. X became fun again (we bow down to the person behind this). Swifties hunted for Easter eggs. And Travis’s shockingly chatty dad, Ed Kelce, embarked on an ostensibly rogue press tour, revealing Travis asked for Scott Swift’s blessing “probably a month ago” (spoiler: Scott had a classic dad response) and the proposal took place at Travis’s reportedly $6 million, castlelike home. Per People, the Lover-esque design likely required over 2,000 flowers (the estimated cost is…something), which might explain why, according to Ed, the people setting it up were still there when the couple made their way outside and “hid in the bushes” to avoid being seen. Oh, and all of this went down “maybe two weeks, not quite two weeks ago” — adding fuel to Swifties’ suspicions that it happened immediately after the New Heights recording. 

Now, not that they need our input — or that we’re remotely qualified to give it — but we wanted to offer some suggestions for the big day, which should take place on Friday, November 13, 2026. Despite “reports” of a “private, casual wedding,” it’ll actually be a black-tie affair at Arrowhead Stadium, with Tree Paine overseeing the prenup of the century and acting as both wedding planner and officiant. In a nod to their coordinating engagement outfits, Travis will collab with Ralph Lauren on a (highly questionable) look that’s essentially his Eras backup dancer uniform — but in red and gold to match the Chiefs-inspired color scheme. While Taylor will wear 13 dresses (we approve of these ideas), including a millennial-coded, high-low number for the ceremony. And despite an intense campaign to be part of Taylor’s bridal squad, the couple will just have Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson, and Benjamin Button as ring bearers. TBD which of the pair’s favorite restaurants will cater, but appetizers will include chicken tenders served with Seemingly Ranch (we’ve come so far) and Taylor will somehow find the time to make a 12-tier wedding cake, plus cinnamon rolls, Pop-Tarts, and “It’s a Loaf Story” sourdough bread for the welcome bags. Taylor and Travis, let us know where to send our address.

God forbid a girl has a little summer fun. Yes, we’re talking about Zoë Kravitz and the impossible-to-keep-up-with rumors surrounding her love life. We’ll explain: Last Sunday, Kravitz was spotted strolling through Rome’s cobblestone streets with Harry Styles — which, save for the fact that they were walking arm in arm, could have been purely platonic. What isn’t purely platonic? Reportedly “smooching like giddy teens,” in the words of Page Six, at a London restaurant, and a source telling People that they have been “spending time” together. Now, before you get too excited about a potential romance between the Resident Cool Girl and Budding Sex Toy Entrepreneur, we should probably mention: It was just last week that speculation was swirling about Kravitz and Austin Butler, after tabloids published photos of the Caught Stealing costars “getting flirty” in a Parisian bar. Add to that: This video of the duo talking about each other’s eyes — and, honestly, your guess is as good as ours.

Between Venus Williams’s surprisingly fuzzy accessory, Carlos Alcaraz’s unexpectedly controversial buzz cut, and Naomi Osaka’s “Billie Jean Bling,” it’s safe to say the tennis stars are acing the style game.

After weeks of waiting for someone, anyone, to give us the song of the summer, Sabrina Carpenter might be the one to save us. On Friday, the Disney Channel actress turned pop star released her long-awaited seventh studio album, Man’s Best Friend — which, as you might recall, has already gotten its fair share of press coverage, thanks to that cover and the alternative version, which Carpenter joked was “approved by God.” So it’s perhaps no surprise that ahead of the release, she warned that the follow-up to 2024’s Short n’ Sweet is “not for any pearl clutchers.” But Carpenter’s exes might also want to think twice before blasting the 12 tracks, particularly given her description of the album: “A real party for heartbreak, a celebration of disappointment,” she said on Instagram, adding, “It’s laughing at yourself and your poor choices as everything is falling apart.” Someone check on Barry Keoghan.

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