Patrick Kelly Dress French The Metropolitan Museum of Art Patrick Kelly's Joyful Black Dresses Opinion The Harvard Crimson We celebrate National Button Day by remembering the brilliant and versatile fashion vision of designer Patrick Kelly. Inspired by the mismatched buttons his grandmother used to mend his shirts back in Mississippi, 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)