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In latest weeks, Taylor Swift has been grabbing seemingly endless attention for the NFL along with her attendance at boyfriend Travis Kelce’s video games. However she additionally has heads turning for her trend on and off the sphere, particularly as she has sported custom-made items courtesy of sportswear designer Kristin Juszczyk.
Juszczyk, who describes herself as a “fully self-taught” designer, has constructed a following on social media re-working conventional sports activities jerseys, T-shirts and different merchandise (blankets, pillows and even footballs themselves) into fashionable tailor-made items, from knee-length coats to corsets and miniskirts. Her designs emphasize sportswear iconography like logos and jersey numbers, taking a fashion-forward method to soccer fandom.
On her Instagram feed, Juszczyk ceaselessly shares movies contrasting the before and after look of her items, in addition to her design course of.
And the 29-year-old, who’s married to San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk, has simply landed a licensing settlement with NFL, a spokesperson confirmed to CNN, permitting her to formally use NFL logos in males’s and ladies’s attire.
The deal was first reported by Sportico; CNN has reached out to Juszczyk for additional remark.
Juszczyk attended faculty in Rhode Island and later Maryland, graduating from Towson College with a level in enterprise administration and advertising. (It was in Maryland that she met her now husband, Juszczyk wrote on her website, as he was then enjoying for the Baltimore Ravens.) However she had realized the way to sew at a younger age and spent “numerous nights crocheting with my grandma whereas watching ‘Wheel of Fortune’,” she wrote on-line. Her ardour for the craft was reignited as an grownup when she created a {couples} Halloween costume for herself and her husband.
Her work caught the general public eye particularly because of a puffer coat {custom} made for Taylor Swift — sporting Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ Travis Kelce’s jersey quantity, 87 — which the singer wore to a Chiefs recreation January 13. However Swift isn’t the one one with a one-of-a-kind Juszczyk piece; Brittany Mahomes, who’s married to Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, has a puffer along with her husband’s quantity, and the designer has additionally made items for Simone Biles, who’s married to Inexperienced Bay Packers’ Jonathan Owens, and Taylor Lautner, a big-time Detroit Lions fan.
In an Instagram Reel Juszczyk shared showcasing the design means of Swift’s now iconic puffer jacket, Lautner might have predicted the deal within the feedback sections: “@NFL get this woman licensing stat,” he wrote.
Attending the 49ers recreation on January 28 towards the Lions, Juszczyk appeared to have little doubt her husband’s workforce would take house the win — and advance to the Super Bowl (the place they may now face the Chiefs). When the sport was over, Juszczyk rolled up the sleeves of the cascading full-length 49ers puffer jacket she was sporting and revealed the phrases “Tremendous Bowl certain” embroidered inside.
In order the massive recreation shortly approaches, these following Juszczyk are wanting to see what the designer could have up her sleeve once more.
“I’m so pleased with her. And she or he’s extraordinarily gifted, and the issues she’s placing on the market are one among a sort. I needed to ensure she bought that credit score,” Kyle Juszczyk informed NBC Sports activities Bay Space on January 16 when requested about his spouse’s designs going viral.