Patrick Kelly: Fashion, Life, and Legacy

Missed the opportunity to join us on-site? Enjoy the recording of the exhibition opening day panel that sheds light on Patrick Kelly’s fashion career, life, and legacy. About the Exhibition: https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/patrick-kelly “Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love” celebrates the meteoric rise and enduring legacy of Patrick Kelly. During his brief, yet impactful, career in the late 1980s, Kelly became the first American and first Black designer to be voted into the Chambre Syndicale du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode, the prestigious French association for ready-to-wear designers. About the Speakers Bjorn G. Amelan was Patrick Kelly's life and business partner from 1983 until Kelly’s death on January 1, 1990. In 1993, Amelan moved to New York to begin his personal and professional relationship with director/choreographer Bill T. Jones whom he married in 2014. He has designed sets for numerous works of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and is the recipient of a 2001 Bessie Award for work on The Breathing Show and The Table Project. In 2011, Amelan helped Jones found New York Live Arts, an experimental body-based art center home to the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. He is New York Live Arts’ creative director. Amelan’s sculpture exhibition, "Memory of a Stone" (2007), was shown in Santa Fe at Dwight Hackett Projects. His paintings were exhibited at Gerald Peters Contemporary in 2018 and are currently on view at New York Live Arts’ Ford