Kristin Juszczyk talks Taylor Swift, her clothes design course of and extra

To cite Taylor Swift, it was the night things changed.

On January 13, the pop celebrity braved the Kansas Metropolis chill to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce at one in every of his Chiefs video games, clad in a customized puffer jacket long-established from one of many tight finish’s jerseys — and crafted by fellow WAG Kristin Juszczyk.

“She single-handedly modified my profession. I really feel like I owe her every thing, really,” the designer, who’s married to 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk, tells Web page Six Fashion of the viral second.

“It was such a pinch-me second seeing her put on one thing of mine, and it simply utterly modified the trajectory of every thing that I used to be doing. She opened up so many doorways for me. And she or he appeared wonderful!”

Within the months since, Juszczyk’s Instagram following has grown by 1 million folks, she’s signed a licensing cope with the NFL and he or she’s whipped up customized items for the likes of Olivia Culpo, Caitlin Clark, Livvy Dunne and Natalia Bryant.

And whereas her work has primarily been restricted to particular commissions by fellow sports activities (and sports-adjacent) stars up till now, Juszczyk is partnering with Marriott Bonvoy to supply followers the prospect to win one in every of her distinctive customized items, together with a design session.

“It is going to be utterly customizable relying on what the winner needs; it may very well be a jacket, a pair of pants, even shorts. The world’s actually their oyster!” she tells us of the prize package deal, which Marriott Bonvoy members can use their points to bid on starting Oct. 10.

“It’ll be so enjoyable to have the ability to meet with them and develop one thing that they’re in search of.”

The fortunate winner will have the ability to witness Juszczyk’s design course of firsthand — one she says hasn’t modified all that a lot since she started placing her personal artful spin on NFL apparel about 5 years in the past.

“My husband’s been so lucky to have such a protracted profession within the NFL, and I simply acquired actually sick of getting the identical three or 4 items in rotation,” she remembers of what impressed her to start out making her personal game-day seems to be.

“We had a field of Kyle’s merch, so I simply sort of acquired impressed to start out slicing [T-shirts] up and see what I may make out of them. The very first thing I ever made for a sport day was truly a pair of patchwork sweatpants; trying again now, they’re so dangerous, however I used to be so happy with them!”

The self-taught stitching savante says she “fell in love” with the method of setting up a garment from begin to end.

“I sort of acquired hooked on the sensation of how rewarding it actually was to spend so much of time and power working with my palms, after which having the ability to bodily have a completed product,” she tells us.

Within the years since, Juszczyk’s reworked standard-issue sports activities merch into every thing from corsets to cargo pants to boot covers — and every undertaking comes with “its personal challenges.”

“The primary time I made my puffer jacket, I had truly by no means carried out a sleeve earlier than! So it was simply a whole lot of studying,” she shares.

“It doesn’t matter how lengthy you’ve been stitching; you’ll all the time be always having to study or reteach your self one thing. Every bit is difficult as a result of I all the time have a imaginative and prescient of what I need; it’s only a matter of if I can truly make that come to life.”

As for whether or not she’s engaged on one other particular model for Swift as NFL season continues?

“Not in the mean time — however you by no means know!” Juszczyk says. “I might all the time like to make her one thing.”

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