Kiana Bonollo ’21

Kiana Bonollo

Fashion and Textile Design, Fashion Design ’21
Minor in Entrepreneurship
Content Creator & Patternmaker

About

Kiana Bonollo is a fashion designer and content creator on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram who shares everything related to sewing, fashion, and design. Since starting her social media journey in 2020, she has amassed an audience of over 2 million followers. Kiana also sells digital sewing patterns for many of her designs on Etsy (KianaBonolloDesigns) so her followers can create her designs as well. She’s collaborated with large brands, including Joann Fabrics, Michaels, and YouTube, to create fashion designs to share online.

Before she began posting on social media, Kiana worked as a professional tailor for multiple years. She has loved fashion since she was a child, as her first experience in the fashion industry was actually not with design, but with modeling. During her college career, she won first place two years in a row at the AATS Fashion Exposé and showed collections at multiple local fashion shows, including fashionSPARK and Greensboro Fashion Week. Soon after graduating, she showed a collection at Twin City Fashion week, where she won North Carolina’s Emerging Designer of the year at the age of 22. Kiana describes her design aesthetic as edgy, but feminine and tailored.