Alana Haim made the shirt Taylor Swift wore to Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, turning a celebrity courtside look into a piece of hand-made fan gear with a very specific punch line. The blue and orange top read “Stevie Knicks,” and Haim said Swift texted her to ask for it before Game 4.
“She said, ‘I want to wear this shirt to the game, can you make it for me?’” Haim said, adding that she and Swift had come up with the pun together while going back and forth on ideas. “I thought you would never ask, this is my dream.”
The shirts were not improvised at the arena. Haim said she made them at home after getting back from the Haim sisters’ last tour, using a Cricut and a small screen-printing setup she had been building for herself. A representative said she bought royal blue Gildan shirts from Michael’s for $2.99 each, then used Speedball orange screen-printing ink with a puff additive to finish them.
That homemade setup produced a full matching set for the night. Mariska Hargitay wore a shirt to match Swift’s, while Este Haim showed up in “Knickelback,” Alana Haim wore “Knickole Kidman,” and Danielle Haim had “Knickolas Cage.” The look gave the Knicks game a very specific celebrity shorthand, built entirely from puns and a craft-store run.
Haim said she has long wanted to make her own shirts and has been “so obsessed with merch forever.” She and her sisters often buy vintage shirts from local thrift stores while on tour, but this time she went further and made the whole set herself. The reveal matters because the outfits were presented like spontaneous fan gear, yet they were planned in advance and assembled at home, down to the ink and shirt brand.
For now, the “Stevie Knicks” shirt stands as the most visible result of that process. Haim did not say whether she will make more for future games, but the one Swift wore at Game 4 already set a new bar for what courtside fandom can look like at Madison Square Garden.
