The final garment, which the brand produced in just a few days, is a white leather varsity jacket with a metal-studded collar, featuring Who Decides War’s signature Gothic window motif on the sleeves – suitably modified in blue and orange. Bravado and D’Amore changed the frontal Knicks logo to “Spike’s Favorite”, a version from the late 1980s. He also added a poignant graphic on the back: the Twin Towers, which, for Spike and many other New Yorkers, had long been a symbol as synonymous with the Big Apple as the Knicks.
From there the story becomes more personal. Like Lees, Brooklyn-born Bravado also shares a father-son passion with the Knicks and his and D’Amore’s child, eight-year-old Judah. (D’Amore, however, grew up a Celtics fan in Boston.) When Bravado took Judah to his first Knicks game in 2024, “They got eliminated in the second round of the playoffs, and Judah was very upset, because, you know, he was so young and optimistic, of course he wanted them to win,” the designer recalls. “And I remember telling him, ‘Now you know what it feels like to be a Knicks fan,’ because in my entire life, I never saw them get a championship.” Then, “Fast forward two years, and we were in the apartment watching them win, and I just picked him up and hugged him. It really creates this bond between father and son.”
D’Amore reiterated the same point. “It’s great to see how much Spike and Jackson have invested in this team, and how present they’ve been. And now to see Eve and Judah do the same. That’s when I really see how much this moment means.”
When Jackson called me back later, after the chaos had subsided, he felt that rapport, too. “Some of my earliest memories are of growing up in the garden with my father,” he said. “I’m so glad I got to watch Game 5 with them in person. It really felt like a major family event.”
