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Keanan Duffty is an award-winning British fashion designer and musician who is based in New York. more...

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Life

Duffty has always believed that music and fashion go hand in hand and he was a founding member of the British Punk band Sordid Details. Formed in 1978, when Keanan was 14 years old, Sordid Details built a strong reputation in the North of England and were heavily influenced by the Sex Pistols, for whom Duffty would later design stage clothes.

In 1980 as the Punk scene waned Keanan Duffty moved on and formed Wonder Stories, a New Romantic group influenced by David Bowie and Roxy Music. Their live shows gained good reviews in the ‘Sounds’ music paper and support from Radio 1 DJ Peter Powell. Wonder Stories played a number of gigs during 1980 and 1981, but by 1982 Duffty had chosen to study fashion design at St Martin’s School Of Art in London. Keanan also worked at PX, the signature New Romantic boutique in London and former haunt of Visage vocalist Steve Strange.

By 1983 Duffty found an experienced music business manager, Falcon Stuart, former manager of Adam & The Ants, X-Ray Spex and Classix Nouveaux. Stuart encouraged Duffty to record demos for EMI and MCA records eventually releasing a 12” dance mix of “Water Sport” on Falcon Stuart’s “Awesome” Records label (AOR4). Duffty also recorded a 4 song session at Maida Vale Studios for BBC Radio 1 DJ Janice Long. “Water Sport” got great reviews including record of the week in Smash Hits, good reviews in the NME and became an underground club hit in the UK. Duffty played a number of shows in London including the ID Magazine Fifth anniversary party at the ICA. Both his music and fashion designs received good reviews in the British music and style press.

Duffty graduated from the prestigious St. Martins School of Art in 1986. His graduation collection earned him a Bachelor Of Arts First Class Honors degree in fashion. He then began to focus more on his fashion career as music took a backseat. From 1987 to 1993 Keanan became design director of Jeff Banks, London. Banks, who is known as the creator of the acclaimed BBC TV program “The Clothes Show”, was instrumental in turning Duffty's attention to New York.

Duffty relocated to New York in 1993 where he became designer at Fenn Wright & Manson and design director of Wilke Rodriguez. However, music was always on Duffty's radar, and in New York he recorded the song “I Am An Alien”. The Video featured famed downtown diva Amanda Lepore as a futuristic nurse and has become a cult classic.

By 1999 Duffty had established his own fashion company. The KD collection is sold in over 70 premium specialty retailers including Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdales, Lounge in New York, Maxfield, Theodore, H Lorenzo and Fred Segal in LA, Joyce in Hong Kong, Harvey Nichols in London and Beams and Journal Standard in Japan. Duffty's designs are inspired by subversive subcultures and mix high fashion with youth culture and music.

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