We celebrate National Button Day by remembering the brilliant and versatile fashion vision of designer Patrick Kelly. Inspired by the mismatched buttons his grandmother used to mend his shirts back in Mississippi, Full article: Encoding Fashion, Decoding Identity: Patrick Kelly's Southern Queer Esthetics Through Stuart Hall's Theory of Representation Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford swears by airport workouts over the gym A dress by Patrick Kelly, dress, Fall 1986 Collection. Photo Credit The Museum at FIT University of Fashion Blog