Alana Haim Made Monica Mcnutt’s Taylor Swift Knicks Shirt
monica mcnutt has a new celebrity merch story tied to Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden: Alana Haim made Taylor Swift’s custom blue-and-orange “Stevie Knicks” shirt for Game 4 of the NBA Finals. The shirt sat inside a bigger Knicks night that also included Mariska Hargitay and the Haim sisters in the building.
Haim said she made the shirt at home after buying a Cricut after her last tour, then cutting the vinyl, placing it on a screen, and printing with a squeegee. She also said she used a puff-paste effect on the shirts, turning a one-off game-night idea into something with the look of small-batch merch.
Alana Haim’s home setup
“I’ve wanted to make my own shirts forever,” Haim said, describing a hobby that started turning practical after she got home from her last tour. She said she has friends come over to make shirts with her and frames the process as a shared project, not a one-time stunt.
“Do you want to make shirts?” is how she said she invites people in, which fits the way she described the work: at home, with a Cricut, screen-printing paint, and the kind of hand-built process that leaves room for puns. In this case, she and Swift went back and forth with names before landing on “Stevie Knicks.”
Madison Square Garden on Wednesday
Wednesday night placed the shirt in front of a crowded celebrity Knicks scene at Madison Square Garden. Swift wore the blue and orange version that read “Stevie Knicks,” Mariska Hargitay wore one that matched Swift’s shirt, Este Haim wore “Knickelback,” and Alana Haim wore “Knickole Kidman.”
That group turned a single garment into part of a larger public display of Knicks fandom, but the wrinkle is how personal the shirt remained: Haim said Swift texted her, “I want to wear this shirt to the game, can you make it for me?” Haim’s answer was immediate: “I thought you would never ask, this is my dream.”
Royal blue from Michael’s
A representative said Haim bought royal blue Gildan shirts from Michael’s for $2.99 each and used Speedball orange screen-printing ink with puff additive. Those details make the shirt less of a luxury one-off and more of a fast, home-made production built from retail basics and a few specific materials.
For readers watching celebrity game-night style, the practical takeaway is simple: the look came from a home shop, not a fashion house, and the process was open enough that Haim could describe it step by step. That makes the shirt easy to copy in spirit and hard to copy in exact execution, which is usually where the best custom pieces land.
