Kelsey Randall is an American designer. In the fall of 2015, Kelsey founded her own eponymous label, Kelsey Randall, a made-to-measure clothing brand with a low-waste production practice in which every piece is cut to order.
Background
Kelsey Randall was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States. Since the very childhood, Randall was interested in fashion. She told, she begged her mother to buy her bridal magazines, from which she studied trends. Beyond this, fashion was in her blood as her grandmother made all of her own clothes. Every time Kelsey visited her grandmother’s house, she would hang out in the closet and play with her grandmother’s dresses and costume jewelry.
Education
During middle school, Randall discovered the work of such designers as John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. She would watch lots of television programs devoted to fashion and runway shows. Such experience made her fall in love with the fashion industry and she decided to become a fashion designer.
In 2005, Randall began her study at Parsons School of Design. During her time there, she won the Parsons Critic’s Choice Award in 2008 and also founded "The Underground Runway," which provided senior students with the chance to showcase their work independent of the school. Kelsey also interned at Bill Blass, working and learning under Prabal Gurung and Peter Som. In 2009, Randall graduated from Parsons with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Career
Graduating from Parsons School of Design, Randall went on to assist the French womenswear company, Lilith for nine years, during which she gained extensive experience in wholesale and brand management. While immersed in business-ends of the industry, Kelsey worked on honing her craft in design after-hours; evolving towards the creation of her label, Kelsey Randall, in 2015.
Kelsey Randall is a made-to-measure clothing brand with a low-waste production practice in which every piece is cut to order. For her own brand, Randall designs and drapes every piece of the collection, makes all the patterns, sews the muslins, and does the fittings in her Bushwick studio.
Views
Randall prefers to use faux furs and leathers in her collections, or upcycle old leather.
Quotations:
"I think for me, the luxury fashion is aspirational. I feel if something's aspirational, it needs to be made in the best possible way. To me, the best possible way to make clothes is to make sure it's not doing harm and that hopefully it's doing some good, as in the people that are doing the production and labor are getting paid correctly, and that the mills that we're working with our manufacturing in a way that is not doing damage."