For at least one night, San Francisco 49ers All-Pro fullback Kyle Juszczyk wasn’t the biggest star in his family.
All it took was pop superstar and Chiefs fan Taylor Swift, who wore a puffy winter coat designed by Juszczyk’s wife Kristin that looked like the jersey of Swift’s friend, tight end Travis Kelce, for a playoff game in the frigid Kansas City on Saturday night. .
“Just happiness,” Kyle Juszczyk said Tuesday of his reaction to seeing one of the world’s most recognized celebrities wearing something his wife designed.
“Just appreciation. I’m so happy for her because I know how hard she worked and how hard she worked. To see Taylor wearing it, it looked incredible. It was just great. We were so happy in our house.”
Kristin Juszczyk has been creating custom designs for several years, starting with Halloween costumes and growing into outfits she wears to her husband’s competitions.
Even some 49ers players, like receiver Deebo Samuel, have worn her creations this season, as have people like Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, whose husband, Jonathan Owens, plays for the Green Bay Packers, and Brittany Mahomes, the wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
That led to an opening to send a Travis Kelce jacket to Swift, who ended up wearing it to the game on Saturday night, turning the designer into a mini-celebrity, drawing interest from media outlets as diverse as Vogue Magazine and ESPN’s football insider. Adam Schefter.
“Honestly, one of the cooler things about this was that it merged two different worlds: the football world was into it, the fashion world, the Swifties,” Juszczyk said. “All that and they all came together.”