Project Runway season 13 winner, and Massey graduate, Sean Kelly, first started making patterns out of newspaper as a kid, living on a farm in South Taranaki. After completing an exchange to Denmark at age 18, he interned at Alexander McQueen in London, before coming home to complete a Bachelor of Design at Massey in Wellington. Majoring in fashion, he won the 2013 Design Excellence Award at Massey University. After graduation, Sean moved to New York and it was there, less than a year later, that he starred in, and won Project Runway. His prize pack included: $100,000 from Red Robin, to launch his business, a car from Lexus, and a spread in Marie Claire magazine. Sean’s cousin, Charlotte Hall, says Sean was always a perfectionist. As a kid he had been obsessed with the little soaps that hotels stock. “He had two whole shelves of the crap, all in meticulous order,” she says. Before long, his obsession switched to sewing. Charlotte believes Sean’s high standards were what set him apart from his other competitors on Project Runway. “He works at the standard of a Margiela couture show, but at Massey University,” she says. She also thinks his success comes down to the [...]
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