Taylor Swift Wedding: Garbage From Outside Venue Becomes Hot Collectible

That old saying about one man’s trash is another man’s treasure may have never been more true. Justin Gignac had the ingenious idea to turn New York City trash into collectible art. His latest release capitalizes on the celebrity wedding of the century.

Gignac, the artist behind NYC Garbage, released NYC Pocket Garbage: Not Invited Edition, a limited collectible tied to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. The Metalabel listing describes the release as garbage collected “from the edge of a love story outside Madison Square Garden,” as close as fans could get without an invite.

The release marks the debut of Pocket Garbage, a smaller version of Gignac’s long-running garbage cube project. According to the listing, the mini NYC Garbage cubes measure 1 inch by 1 inch by .75 inch and were hand-picked by Gignac while he was wearing a full tuxedo outside Madison Square Garden on July 3, 2026.

Gignac also leaned into the joke around the release. Including on Instagram the line, “Did people think I was a wedding guest who decided to clean up the streets after leaving the party? Yes, yes, they did.”

The cubes include a mix of left-behind items collected outside the venue. The listing says the contents include cigarette butts, water bottle caps, caution tape, pieces of a rainbow fan, straws, utensils, an ovulation test kit, a ring pop and one left AirPod. Many of the items were tied in knots to fit the wedding theme.

Each sculpture is arranged and sealed so it will not leak or smell, then signed by Gignac on the bottom. Buyers were not able to request a specific cube. The listing says each one was randomly selected by the artist.

The Not Invited Edition was released July 6, 2026, with catalog number POCKET001. It was limited to 50 pieces and is now listed as sold out. The main NYC Garbage Metalabel page showed the release priced at $25 before selling out.

The project fits into Gignac’s larger NYC Garbage series, which began in 2001. On his website, Gignac says he started selling 100 percent authentic New York City garbage, hand-picked and arranged in Lucite cubes that are signed, numbered and dated. More than 1,300 cubes have been sold to collectors in more than 30 countries.

For collectors, the Not Invited Edition is part art object, part pop culture souvenir and part joke. It is not memorabilia from inside the wedding. It is street debris collected outside Madison Square Garden, sealed into tiny display cubes and sold as a limited run for people who were not there.