meet the designers: kayley jolly.

Hi everyone! My name is Kayley Jolly. 

I am senior at Meredith College

where I am getting a degree in Fashion Design and a Minor in Studio

Arts. I was born and raised in Charlotte, NC and moved to Raleigh for

college. When I first moved here, I was dead set on moving back to

Charlotte after graduation, but after living here in Raleigh I have

seen all the art and the different fashion opportunities that Raleigh

has to offer and fallen in love with it! Since falling in love with

Raleigh (the QC will still always have my heart), I plan to stay here

after graduation and bring even more fashion to Raleigh and get it on

the fashion map. 

My favorite designer would have to be John Galliano

because of how beautiful, crazy, and amazing his design are; if you

have never seen on of his lines go on YouTube right now and watch one

of his couture shows!

I got involved with the White Out Lung Cancer show because it was a

great opportunity to show my designs with some other great designers I

knew, and it was for a great cause. My grandfather died of lung cancer

when I was younger, so this show does hit home with me. I want to help

get awareness about lung cancer out to the world and show support to

the families that have gone through losing a loved one to the cancer

or are going through it now.

The word hope is such a powerful word to me. By definition it means a

feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen, which

I do agree with, but I think that hope means so much more. Hope is the

willingness to never give up on what you are dreaming for, its the

strength people have when a tragedy happens, and it's the willingness

to see the light in a bunch of dark. With hope, there comes a lot of

greatness and change; if we didn't have hope, the world would be

completely lost.