Kaila Methven (born c. 1992)
is an American fashion and lingerie designer.
Life and career
Kaila was born in
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United Sta ...
. She lived with her mother Lisa Methven, until her mother's death. Later she moved to Paris to live with her father.
She trained in art of design at the
ESMOD
The École supérieure des arts et techniques de la mode, or ESMOD, is a French private school of fashion. It was founded in Paris in 1841 by Alexis Lavigne. It has branches in Bordeaux, Lyon, Paris, Rennes and Roubaix in France, and in a numb ...
and earned her master's degree from the IFA Paris. Later, She did her MBA in Luxury Brand Management at the
Polimoda
Ente per le Arti applicate alla Moda e al Costume abbreviated as Polimoda is a private fashion school in Florence, capital of Tuscany, Italy. The school was originally founded by Shirley Goodman, the former Executive Vice President Emeritus at Fa ...
.
Kaila is founder of Madame Methven. She debuted her collection at
LA Fashion Week. Since then, she has been featured in magazines, including ''
Maxim US''. Kaila won Best International Designer of the year awards, Haute Couture Lingerie and Haute couture Pret A Porter. Her designs have been seen on many celebrities, including
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Apollonia Kotero
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Kitty Brucknell
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and cast members of ''
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
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''. She is also an LGBT activist.
Chicken heiress
In 1960, Kaila's maternal grandfather, Stanley Methven, founded a company, ''
Rainbow Chicken Unlimited'', which in the 1980s at one time supplied 90% of the chicken sold by Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Following the release of the KFC-produced short film, ''
A Recipe for Seduction
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'', ''
Vanity Fair'' noted of Methven:
Methven found aspects of the film itself to be "very vulgar and definitely not something that the Methven family would ever approve of".
Filmography
Accolades
* 2016 - Prêt à porter Gold Award,
International Design Awards The International Design Awards are a group of awards that recognize, celebrate and promote design visionaries and emerging talent in architecture, interior, product, graphic and fashion design.
Overview
The International Design Awards (IDA) exis ...
* 2016 - lingerie Silver Award, International Design Awards
*2018 - Global Designer of The Year Award
References
External links
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Living people
American fashion designers
1991 births
Lingerie designers