The instant Kit Keenan appeared on Matt James’ season of The Bachelor, you would not have been the only one envious of her style. Homegirl radiated Haute fashion from her very bones. This was most likely due to the fact that her mother, fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, is well regarded within the fashion business. Clearly, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, so let’s learn everything we can about Kit’s mother, shall we?
Cynthia was raised in Illinois by her parents, Ed and Clementine Rowley; her father was a science teacher, while her mother’s side dabbled in the arts. likely influenced her passion for clothes design. “Everyone on my mother’s paternal side was a painter. Cynthia informed the New York Times that her grandma painted a number of self-portraits similar to this one. “She constantly wore Chinese-style gowns, while being 100 percent Italian. It was a really weird upbringing, complete with theme rooms and other such things.”
At the age of seven, Cynthia created her first piece of apparel, a dress. (At that age, I was literally playing with Barbie dolls and watching Totally Spies.)
Cynthia graduated in 1981 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). It wasn’t without its ups and downs, however; in her junior year, Cynthia was actually booted out of an art display for wanting to add wings to her works. In Cynthia’s final year, SAIC awarded her a fellowship that enabled her to relocate to New York City (where she is now based).
While driving to SAIC, Cynthia encountered a woman who worked for Marshall Field’s, a Chicago-based department store that was later acquired by Macy’s. What transpired, in Cynthia’s own words:
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