The flamboyant reddish suit Travis Kelce wore to the Super Bowl was designed for women to wear, it can be revealed.

The 35-year-old Kelce is renowned for his gameday fits and everyone knew that he was going to be pulling out all the the stops for the Super Bowl – potentially his last ever game.

Kelce made the decision to wear his 70s style suit on Saturday morning in New Orleans at a fitting, GQ has claimed. 

But the designer told the publication that the NFL Star was one of the last people he had in mind for the piece when he first got it together. 

Designer Mike Amiri confirmed the outfit was meant for women when it was shown at Paris Fashion Week last month but he knew it would still look the part for Kelce.

‘He’s just such a great person to dress because he can wear clothes, clothes don’t wear him. He can make anything kind of work,’ Amiri told GQ.

The designer of Travis Kelce’s Super Bowl suit says it was initially made for women

‘He’s really interested in fashion. He knows his brands, he has a perspective.’

Amiri said that when Kelce’s team saw the design they told Amiri ‘he loves this, in all capitals’.

Kelce’s camp said, according to GQ, that his suit was a homage to New Orleans jazz with reddish color also a reference to the Chiefs.

Amiri continued: ‘There’s the reality that you’re dressing one of the most visible men on the planet.

‘But at the same time I kind of just always think I’m dressing a friend. I want this guy to feel great. I want him to look good.’

Unfortunately for Kelce, it was the ultimate day to forget in New Orelans.

His Chiefs team never got going. They were blown away by the Eagles at Caesars Superdome and even though the scoreline was still emphatic at 40-22, it went some way to flattering the Chiefs. For most of the game, it wasn’t even that close.

Where Kelce goes from here, perhaps he doesn’t even know yet. He looked in total shock as he spoke briefly to reporters in the locker room after the game. 

‘Hats off to the Eagles, man. We couldn’t get it going offensively,’ Kelce said to reporters in the locker room. ‘We just couldn’t find that spark, couldn’t find that momentum.’

Kelce said he believed at halftime that the Chiefs could turn the game around, with the score 24-0.

‘100% believed,’ he said. ‘Never lose doubt. This team is going to fight to the end forever. I think there was a lot of things going wrong. 

‘Everything was not really going our way today. You don’t lose like that without everything going bad. We haven’t played that bad all year.’