Bridget Kelly

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About Bridget Kelly

Award Winning designer Bridget Kelly has been instrumental in creating and designing well known and successful children’s brands globally for over 20 years. As the first designer hired by Pottery Barn Kids, she quickly became the Design Director and helped launch PBK into one of the most successful children's brands in the world. Bridget is the Founder, Designer and President of The Little Acorn, the privately owned “commerce with conscience” baby brand, growing yearly online and found in curated stores across the USA. Bridget is currently consulting and designing for the 2018 Earnie Award-winning brand; Elegant Baby, instrumental in turning around its brand aesthetic to be true to its’ name and goals. She has also consulted for the Royalty endorsed and highly visible UK brand; “My 1st Years” for strategy and brand development direction. Bridget was the senior designer for Esprit Kids in their hey-day, and designed children’s apparel for such notable giants as; Mattel, Nike and Diane Von Furstenberg, she was the brand creator and designer of Whistle and Wink, the high-end children's home brand in NY. She has lived in China to partner, design and create the “I-baby” brand, instrumental in opening 200+ retail stores across mainland China. Bridget partnered as the Creative Director with Luolai, the largest and most successful bedding brand in China, developing and launching the Luolai Kids brand stores throughout China. With over 20 years of brand development, design expertise, strategic thinking, merchandising and sourcing strategies in the children's product industry, ranging from specialties in Children's & Baby apparel design, knitwear and knit product, Kid’s and Nursery bedding design, plush toys and dolls, home accessories, wall art, rugs of all constructions, seasonal and holiday product designs and much more, Bridget Kelly is the “GO-TO” person for success in kids’ product design.