{"id":45516,"date":"2020-09-24T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=45516"},"modified":"2020-11-27T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T04:03:04","slug":"throwback-thursday-designer-patrick-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/throwback-thursday-designer-patrick-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Designer Patrick Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time I think I’m settling back in to a daily blogging schedule, the urgent fight against white supremacists<\/a> and dictatorship<\/a> calls me away.\u00a0 Sometimes breaking news even cancels planned protest actions, like last weekend, when the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg caused my team to postpone our #TrumpRat art project<\/a> in D.C., and gather at the Supreme Court building instead<\/a>.\u00a0 I hadn’t finished my blog tribute to the Notorious RBG when activists started prepping for what was correctly predicted to be an outrageous injustice<\/a> in the case of the police officers who murdered Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky. I joined thousands of peaceful protestors in the streets of New York City<\/a> last night, in an action led by the inspiring organizers of the Black Women’s March.<\/p>\n

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Now I’m prepping to go back to D.C. for a couple of days. But I had to hop on here when the AIDS Memorial Instagram account<\/a> reminded me that today was the birthday of one of my favorite designers, the late Patrick Kelly. The post includes a great video clip.<\/p>\n

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was an American, Paris based fashion designer who died of AIDS in Paris. He was 35 years old. One of Patrick\u2019s clients was the late great Bette Davis who he met through a member of his team. The actress, who Patrick affectionately called \u201cMs. D\u201d, famously wore his design while a guest on @letterman in 1987 and she remained a devotee of his clothes until her death in 1989. Less than three months after Davis passed, Patrick died at the Hotel Dieu, a hospital near the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Originally the causes of death were reported to be bone marrow disease and a brain tumor but the actual cause is now acknowledged to be AIDS. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Patrick studied art at @jacksonstateu and then attended @parsonsschoolofdesign. While living in Atlanta, at age 18, he sold reworked, recycled clothes and served as an unpaid window-dresser at @ysl. In 1988, @ysl chairman Pierre Berg\u00e9 sponsored Patrick to form the Paris-based womenswear fashion house named Patrick Kelly Paris. He later became both the first American and the first person of color to be admitted as a member of the Chambre syndicale du pr\u00eat-\u00e0-porter des couturiers et des cr\u00e9ateurs de mode. \ud83c\udfa5 1989 Fashion Television with @thejeannebeker #whatisrememberedlives<\/a><\/p>\n

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