New Chicago Designer, Timeless Story of Success Part I

Photo courtesy of Kelly King.

When Kelly King was 12 she was like most 12 year old girls. She loved clothes. But she was unlike many girls in that she loved clothes so much she decided to make her passion her life path. This direction came to her when she saw her cousin drawing dresses and exclaimed, “Oh, you can do that?!”

From that time, she started drawing. Kelly kept drawing as she entered high school at Carl Sandberg High School in Orland Park and took her first home economics class where...