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, Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford swears by airport workouts over the gym Met Gala 2026 Red Carpet Photos: All the Looks The New York Times Full article: Encoding Fashion, Decoding Identity: Patrick Kelly's Southern Queer Esthetics Through Stuart Hall's Theory of Representation Patrick Kelly Philadelphia Museum of Art Vintage 1960s Pierre Cardin Cream Wool Shift Dress, Small Ian Drummond Vintage