October 23, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Patrick Kelly has virtually as many intriguing layers as his designs. Next Post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Connect with:. Site Links. Login to your account below.
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Summer Art Camp. K—12 Students. Resources for Educators. Become a Member. September 25, — May 2, Exhibition Tour. Artist Bio. Chow, Time Magazine. They always came back to how much joy was in him as a person, how much joy was in the clothing, how he wanted his clothes to make you smile," says presenting curator Laura Camerlengo.
And by the 's Kelly had become a sensation in American and European fashion circles. But while his rise was meteoric, presenting curator Laura Camerlengo says, it was anything but smooth. And those early experiences are literally woven into his work.
Work that was sparked in part by a gift his former partner Bjorn Amelan picked up in a Paris flee market. It was a porcelain ashtray, formed in the image of a Black person's face.
And Patrick had the generosity of spirit and the vision instead of reading me the Riot Act, or even explaining to me what these pieces meant, which he never did, and which I only really came to realize over time.
He said to me, 'we will start collecting these,'" Amelan remembers. Kelly not only collected the racially charged items, he began turning them into a statement, working them into clothing and jewelry. At his height, Kelly's fashions spoke to the gay community and communities of color, the traditional fashion world and wider public all at once. But like his some of his swirling fabrics, Patrick Kelly's own times would soon envelop him.
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