Cynthia Rowley (born July 29) is an American-style fashioner situated in the West Village of New York City. 

Early life and profession 

Rowley is a local of Barrington, Illinois, a prosperous northwestern suburb of Chicago. She is one of three kids destined for Ed Rowley, a previous science educator, and his significant other, Clementine, who was a painter.

Rowley made her first dress at age seven, and originated from an aesthetically slanted family – her grandparents incorporated the creator of the Pabst Blue Ribbon logo and a painter.

She moved on from Barrington High School and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Rowley was kicked out of her lesser year craftsmanship show at SAIC in light of the fact that her utilization of wings in her plan was viewed as ridiculous.

In a meeting with the Chicago Tribune, Rowley said that Marshall Field's had got her first assortment while she was as yet an understudy at SAIC. 

Design profession 

In 1981, Rowley won a SAIC cooperation grant in her senior year and utilized the cash to move from Chicago to New York City. She at that point dispatched her profession with $3,000 in seed cash from one of her grandmas. 

Since Rowley dispatched her first case assortment in quite a while, developed to incorporate ladies' wear, satchels, glasses, shading beautifiers, aroma, wetsuits and swimwear, home decorations, bedding items, and office frill. 

The creator additionally made a line of home extras called Swell, in light of a book arrangement she co-composed with companion Ilene Rosenzweig, which made its presentation at Target in 2003. In 2011 Rowley introduced the Mr. Forces assortment, restricted menswear extend named after her significant other Bill Powers. 

Rowley's designs are introduced bi-yearly at New York Fashion Week. Mark Cynthia Rowley stores are in New York City, Chicago, Montauk, Palm Beach, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Newport Beach just as at the organization's web store. 

Rowley's plans were depicted by The New York Times as "coquettish, energetically hued dresses and tops in wispy materials" that have "a whiff of the cheerful, basic soul" of Claire McCardell. 

Grants 

The Council of Fashion Designers of America respected Rowley with a Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent in 1994. In 2012, Rowley was given the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Legend of Fashion grant, close by her better half Bill Powers.

In 2015, Rowley won the Designer of the Year grant at the 37th Annual American Apparel and Footwear Association American Image Awards. 

TV and books 

Rowley has shown up as an appointed authority on the unscripted tv programs 24 Hour Catwalk, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, and Design Star and has been a visitor on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Gossip Girl, Celebrity Jeopardy, and The Late Show with David Letterman, among different projects.

The TV arrangement Return to Amish on the TLC network follows ex-Amish Kate Stoltzfus as she understudies at Rowley's plan organization. 

She has composed and co-composed a few books: 

Thin: A Fantasy Memoir (Random House, 2007) 

The Swell Dressed Party (with co-creator Ilene Rosenzweig, Atria, 2005) 

Swell Holiday (with Rosenzweig, Atria, 2003) 

Home Swell Home (with Rosenzweig, Atria, 2002) 

Swell: A Girl's Guide to the Good Life (with Rosenzweig, Time Warner, 1999) 

Individual life 

Rowley's first spouse was picture taker Tom Sullivan, who passed on of cerebrum malignant growth at 32 years old in 1994. Rowley wedded William Keenan Jr., a Brooklyn stone carver, with whom she had a girl, Kit Clementine Keenan(1999). She is realized Keenan delivered her own line of attire in 2018, named KIT.

In 2019 Cynthia and her little girl Kit made a digital broadcast together called Ageless. After Rowley and Keenan Jr. isolated, she wedded William (Bill) Powers, a workmanship seller, proprietor of the Half Gallery in Manhattan's Upper East Side, and essayist, on September 17, 2005, at the home of picture taker Peter Beard.