While studying costume design in college, I started experimenting with silk painting and quickly fell in love with the process. It’s a free-form, organic process that is completely my own, and as a result, I embrace, and celebrate, the imperfections it allows.

I want to challenge traditional workwear, transforming it with the striking and eye-catching prints from my silk painting designs. Even though the clothes I make are printed, they feel hand-painted, and they’re almost direct replicas of the original silk pieces.

Most of all, I want these clothes to start conversations, to give the wearer a sense of feeling singular, of wearing something no one else has, and wearing it with pride. 

I hope, when you wear these clothes, you feel that same sense of inspiration. Thank you for supporting me on this journey--I can’t wait to see where it goes. 

Keith Kelly <3