OUR BRAND STORY

Ten collections, a collaboration with Benetton, and features in magazines brought Kelly the world’s heart attention and investors' interest a while ago. His legacy will come back again on the runways.

He stood for diversity and inclusion incorporating his American southern roots on his designs, using racial iconography in his fashions to destigmatize racist memorabilia.

The first American designer ever admitted to Chambre syndicale du prêt-à-porter that governs the French ready to wear industry.

After setting up his own vintage store in the ‘70s, at the end of the decade he moved to New York to enroll in Parsons School, but got frustrated with the lack of industry support and later moved to Paris.

"I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block."