Fashion guru and TV personality returns to BC
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Topic: What Not To Wear
Sort Desciption: What Not to Wear's co-host and BC graduate Clinton Kelly ... The Learning Channel's What Not To Wear offered Kelly a co-host position directing women in ...
Content Inside: The Heights - Fashion guru and TV personality returns to BC 1 of 3 Clinton Kelly charmed his audience with fashion tips and stories of past career stints. Fashion guru and TV personality returns to BC What Not to Wear's co-host and BC graduate Clinton Kelly gives students some to-dos Vanessa Voltolina Posted: 2/23/06 "It fits me so well" says Clinton Kelly smoothing his black pinstriped Armani jacket. "After three tailoring jobs it fits perfectly. I feel so self-assured and powerful whenever I wear this." As his 37th birthday approaches fashion journalist magazine editor and television co-hostKelly BC '91 has more reasons than his jacket to feel confident and in control. Growing up in the town of Port Jefferson on the North Shore of Long Island Clinton Kelly is a self- proclaimed resident of "the home of the '80's mullet and the big White Snake hair." He describes his high school years as being "a preppy with a partial mullet." His honesty and ability to laugh at his own fashion faux pas is what he says got him into the business in the first place. "It wasn't really a conscious choice" he says about entering fashion journalism. "I've always liked clothing and prided myself on being well-dressed. Many people label me as a fashionista - I abhor that term. It's not like I have an altar to Tom Ford or Coco Chanel in my living room." Aside from abstaining from the term fashionista Kelly can effectively and accurately critique the fashion and style that he comes in contact with. "BC from 1987-1991 was the pleated khakis capital of the world" he jokes. During the Boston College Magazine "Master Class: Alumni in Residence" event Kelly explains to BCM editor and moderator Ben Birnbaum and a packed McGuinn 121 lecture hall that while he may have spent his dining hall money on an expensive Neiman Marcus tie he also grappled with changing majors multiple times. "I was one class ...
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