Remember how Eryn and I went to a jewelry-industry breakfast in July and got caught giving the stink-eye to a totally innocent designer? We took an outfit photo on our way out.
What Wendy Wore
Jacket: Vintage Patrick Kelly (purchased on eBay in 2010)
T-shirt: MaxMara (pre-2005)
Jeans: Madewell (2016)
Shoes: Onex (2015)
Purse: Louis Vuitton (2001)
The jacket is from the Spring 1989 collection of the late, great designer Patrick Kelly. I’ve worn it plenty of times. Here it is in 2010 …
Click for original post.
… and in 2012.
With rapper Gangsta Boo and designer Stacy Lomman. Click for original post.
I’m quite obsessed with Patrick Kelly. He had a distinct design vision and lived an extraordinary, but sadly abbreviated, life. A gay black man from Mississippi without formal training, Kelly moved to Paris and became the first American and first person of color to become a member of the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt-à-Porter (the governing body of the French ready-to-wear industry). His line only existed from 1985 till his death on New Year’s Day in 1990. He’s one of the designers that I always look for when vintage shopping. You can see other pieces from my Kelly collection in this 2013 blog post. I plan to do a YouTube video on him soon; in the meantime, you can learn more about him through these blog posts.