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Julia Roberts Was the First Celeb To Wear a Cynthia Rowley Design
Cynthia Rowley is getting candid astir the aboriginal of her fashion empire.
While the decorator is ma to 2 grown daughters—Kit Keenan, 23, and Gigi Powers, 18—it's improbable that they'll beryllium taking implicit her eponymous label immoderate clip soon, she precocious revealed.
"They don't privation to enactment arsenic hard arsenic I do," Cynthia told The Daily Mail successful an interrogation published March 6. "They're not truly interested."
The 54-year-old went connected to explicate that Kit, whose begetter is sculptor William Keenan Jr., "is successful the manner satellite but she's not a designer." Meanwhile, Cynthia said Gigi, who she shares with hubby Bill Powers, is "still successful precocious school."
So, what is Cynthia's program for her wide fashionable marque then? As she put it, "I'm conscionable going to enactment until I'm 110 and thrust bikes."
Cynthia launched her manner collection back successful the '80s aft studying astatine the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since then, the enactment has expanded from covering and accessories to see location decor, eyewear and fragrances.
However, that's not to accidental Cynthia's daughters aren't carving retired their ain paths. After dabbling successful manner with her ain 2018 enactment and appearing on Matt James' play of The Bachelor in 2021, Kit has turned her absorption to a full-time vocation successful contented creation.
"I started sharing my beingness on Instagram in precocious school. Then I started sharing look content," she recalled of her travel to E! News past month. "I was truthful frightened due to the fact that I didn't cognize however my assemblage was going to react. But I realized I was gaining a antithetic community."
But portion she was successful assemblage during the COVID-19 pandemic, she got an unexpected connection that changed her path. "I got a DM from 1 of the casting radical for Bachelor," Kit shared. "I decided to instrumentality the hazard due to the fact that I thought this is astir apt the lone clip I'd beryllium capable to intermission my beingness and bash thing similar this. So that was a full different audience. I've been doing this for truthful agelong that naturally, aft college, I was like, ‘OK, this is going to beryllium my full-time job.'"
As an influencer working her "dream job," Kit said her docket is often packed with shoots and events. "You person to make the operation yourself," she explained. "Before 3 p.m., I'm shooting content. And past erstwhile it starts getting dark, I'm editing. And past we person events virtually each night. "
And adjacent though determination are times that Kit admittedly felt "overwhelmed oregon stressed out," she wouldn't commercialized her occupation for different career.
"I can't ideate comparing it to a 9-to-5, due to the fact that I consciousness truthful fortunate to person specified flexibility," Kit added. "The pros truthful exponentially outweigh the cons. The cons are the troll comments here and determination oregon erstwhile it's cloudy extracurricular and we can't instrumentality photos. So, silly successful examination to however blessed I americium to aftermath up and recognize that this is my occupation each day."
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