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Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss: A Friendship Timeline

The 2013 runway meeting, their joint Vogue cover, Kloss’s Eras Tour appearance and the November 2026 Chiefs game, with sources for each public milestone.

Two curved paths pass through a runway, a roadside print and a stadium ticket before meeting again.
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Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss were seen together at the Kansas City Chiefs–New York Jets game on November 8, 2026, an appearance documented by Elle. In July, Kloss attended Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. To understand why a football game made news, go back to the moment when the two were willing to narrate their friendship together.

The public record, from the runway to the game

  1. · They meet backstage

    Swift performed at the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, where Kloss walked. Swift later showed Vogue a photo from the night they met and named Lily Aldridge as the person who introduced them. The interview lets the reader hear their own account of the start of the friendship.

  2. and · Big Sur and the Vogue cover

    The two drove to Big Sur in 2014, then recounted the trip in a joint Vogue interview for the March 2015 issue. The magazine paired an account of how they spent time together with a fashion shoot built around their friendship. It is the strongest source for how they described the relationship in those years.

  3. and · Fewer joint appearances

    Kloss still spoke warmly of Swift when asked about her in Vogue’s October 2018 interview. By 2019, coverage was parsing events where they did not appear together. Elle reported that Swift missed both of Kloss’s wedding celebrations. An absence can explain why a rumor spread. The article’s reported reasons, and any broader theory about the friendship, require a different level of confidence from a documented appearance.

  4. · Kloss attends the Eras Tour

    Kloss attended Swift’s Los Angeles-area Eras Tour show at SoFi Stadium. A concert appearance establishes that Kloss went to the show. It offers no transcript of a conversation between them or date for a reconciliation.

  5. · Kloss attends Swift’s wedding

    Elle published photographs of Kloss headed to the wedding. The Associated Press named her among the guests. It is a more specific public record than an unpictured invitation or someone’s absence from an earlier event. Read the wedding timeline for the venue, ceremony and what Swift’s representative confirmed.

  6. · Together at a Chiefs game

    Vogue reported that Swift and Kloss watched the game together. The wedding had placed them at the same celebration. Here they were seen alongside each other. That is the strongest recent public answer to whether they still spend time together.

Why the gaps became part of the story

In 2015 the evidence came from the pair themselves: they told a reporter how they met and what they did together. Later, the public had to work with less. An image at a concert, an account of a missed wedding and a photograph from a game each capture one moment. Put several years between them and those gaps can start to look like a plot, even though the gaps are just where the record goes quiet.

What the wedding and Chiefs game establish

They establish two separate 2026 public appearances, one at Swift and Kelce’s wedding and one at the Chiefs game. There is no sourced turning point for a private falling-out or reconciliation in this chronology. The record is clearest when it sticks to what each event shows.

The “deja vu” songwriting credits are a different kind of public record. The change has a paper trail, and the people and roles named on it matter more than rumors about the artists’ relationship.