Kelly began her career as an archeologist and as a result, brings a uniquely macrocosmic perspective to her present incarnation as a publicist within the fashion business of New York City. Her interest in archeology began with “always having had this spiritual connection, a need to understand more than what she could see.” Kelly’s heightened attunement drove her early in her career, to go back to her roots and learn about where she came from, not just her own geneology, but way back to the origins of man, as in Middle Eastern cultures. Eventually, Kelly’s inner voice led her to New York to study Fashion History and Exhibition design. She arrived in her archeologist wardrobe, “all Gucci by Tom Ford” and never left Manhattan, despite the omen of arriving two weeks before 9/11. I see it all as fateful, because Kelly is a healer and a visionary. Today, she is rocking it as a conscious public relations maveric. She has shed her ’90′s duds for the globally-minded, indigenous and futurisitically focused, burgeoning designers that she represents, such as Telfar Clemens, LaQuan Smith (closet to come) and Mari J Brooklyn. Together and as a whole, Kelly leads her company on a path to help rid the world of the “secrecy of fashion… making it part of the community, a charity, not a competition… and making international connections.” In a sense, Kelly is herself, a child of the world, with different sets of grandparents that were African American, Caucasian and American Indian. She says that she does what she does because she actually loves people, a “peace” that personally I find has been missing from fashion PR today. On the contrary, Kelly is a voice of the inclusive. She says, “designer clothing is something for everybody, no matter what size, what color, what sexuality and no matter what the cost.”

If you like Kelly, you may also enjoy Joanne Petit-Frere, Dalad Kambhu and Jolieba Jackson.