Vintage 1960s Pierre Cardin Cream Wool Shift Dress, Small Ian Drummond Vintage Full article: Encoding Fashion, Decoding Identity: Patrick Kelly's Southern Queer Esthetics Through Stuart Hall's Theory of Representation Patrick Kelly's Joyful Black Dresses Opinion The Harvard Crimson These gloves featuring a jubilant assortment of colorful plastic buttons on the gauntlets were designed by Patrick Kelly in 1986. Mississippi born Kelly embellished many of his fashion designs with buttons (often mismatched) 1980s Patrick Kelly Button Mini Dress