The Swarm. Release No. 2

We launched THE SWARM, our Indian Wells shirt, right where its story began: inside Stadium 1, the second-largest tennis stadium in the world, and the exact spot where time stopped two years ago.


It was the quarterfinal, Alcaraz against Zverev, when a swarm of thousands of bees decided to claim front-row seats, treating the Spidercam like their own private perch. The players waited. The world watched. For a few surreal minutes, professional tennis simply had to stop for insects.


Finding the man who walked onto Stadium 1

Since we were already in the desert, there was one more thing to do. We drove out to Palm Desert to find the hidden hero of that day: Lance Davis, the beekeeper who calmly walked onto Stadium 1 while millions of people watched, and cleared a professional tennis match of bees like it was Tuesday.

Lance isn't just a hero for a day. He's a true friend of bees, and in his office he told us the whole story: what Carlos Alcaraz said to him in that moment, what he said back, and how his love for bees started long before he ever set foot on a tennis court. His Oakley glasses were the same model he'd worn back then, too. Some things don't need an update.

As a parting gift, Lance handed us a jar of his own honey and an unworn Killer Bee Live Removal shirt. We left him a shirt too, a proper jersey swap, desert edition. No. 1 of 100 of THE SWARM now belongs to the person who made the whole story possible in the first place. That felt right.

Watch him taking us back in time.

We took that moment and turned it into fabric. On the front, a collage of the afternoon's chaos, a tennis ball that looks like it's been dipped in honey, and quiet nods to Indian Wells' signature "Pro Purple." On the back, the details of the invasion that made headlines around the world.

Designed in a quick turn-around by close friend and artist Patrick Düwer.