Kelly Rippy

Kelly Rippy is an American model whose career was established in the late 1990s, when he appeared in Calvin Klein advertising. His subsequent work includes a recurring connection with Giorgio Armani and a magazine portfolio developed across several generations of menswear publishing.

Kelly appeared in CK by Calvin Klein’s spring-summer 1999 campaign, placing him in the advertising of one of the era’s defining American labels. International work followed through fashion houses and commercial clients, with representation that included Wilhelmina before he joined IMG. His early advertising remains part of a career that continued well beyond its first period of visibility.

Giorgio Armani became a repeated professional relationship. Kelly returned for the house’s spring-summer 2012 Frames of Life campaign, photographed by Serge Guerans in Saint-Tropez. He later appeared in Armani’s 2020 holiday advertising, extending his work with the house from eyewear into another chapter of its photographic campaigns.

Magazine assignments have provided a parallel strand of Kelly’s career. His portfolio includes Vogue Hommes and VMAN, alongside a September 2018 story for Robb Report, photographed by Kevin O’Brien.

A winter 2020 cover of Monsieur with Alessandro Burzigotti added another magazine relationship to a working life already spanning more than two decades. That history gives Kelly a place in menswear photography connecting late-1990s American advertising with subsequent eras of designer imagery.