RENAISSANCE MAN; THESE DAYS, KEANAN DUFFTY IS DESIGNING SHOES AND TOYS AND STARRING ON TV.(Interview)

Footwear News, January, 2005 by Carofano, Jennifer

Byline: Jennifer Carofano

A jack of all trades, Keanan Duffty has his hand in just about everything these days. "I never want to miss an opportunity," Duffty, 40, said in an interview at his Soho studio in New York. Here, a team of artists spend their days silk-screening Duffty's designs on T-shirts and hanging them to dry from the exposed pipes.

Duffty's hands-on design approach, which he honed at London's St. Martins School of Art, will be evident this year in more ways than one. To wit, he's making his reality show debut, launching his second toy (this one, a plastic rabbit figurine dressed in knight's armor) and -- in perhaps his biggest move of all -- introducing The Keanan Duffty-Gola collection, in conjunction with Gola.

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