Bio

Nashville, Ten­nessee. Grow­ing up in a large fam­ily — five sis­ters and two broth­ers — he real­ized at a young age the impor­tance of stand­ing out. He began his edu­ca­tion at Vol­un­teer State Col­lege with a full aca­d­e­mic schol­ar­ship, plan­ning to become a vet­eri­nar­ian. Dur­ing this time he took a job as a sketch artist for a local pageant bou­tique in Nashville, and became totally enam­ored with fashion.

Kayne trans­ferred to the Fash­ion Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy in New York City, grad­u­at­ing Magna Cum Laude in 2002 and win­ning the crit­ics choice for evening wear. Fol­low­ing grad­u­a­tion he opened Kayne’s Cloth­ing Bou­tique back home in Nashville, which afforded him the oppor­tu­nity to cre­ate cus­tom ball­room dance cos­tumes, evening wear, and wardrobe for the coun­try music industry.

In 2003 Kayne became part­ners in South­ern Charm/Alter Ego, an estab­lished for­mal wear and pageant store in Nor­man, Okla­homa. Within three years, his suc­cess in the pageant indus­try soared. In Decem­ber of 2005, he dressed the entire top five teens and the win­ner and first run­ner up in the Miss Okla­homa U.S.A. Pageant.

In May 2006 Kayne was cho­sen to com­pete on the hit Bravo TV Show Project Run­way Sea­son 3. He was very excited to be on the show and almost made it to the finals. One of the chal­lenges dur­ing the show was to design a gown for the reign­ing Miss USA to wear when she com­peted in the Miss Uni­verse Pageant. Kayne won this chal­lenge and Tara Con­ner was wear­ing the gown he cre­ated when she became fourth run­ner up to Miss Uni­verse later that year.

Since com­ing home from Project Run­way Sea­son 3 life has been hec­tic. Kayne has estab­lished a Johnathan Kayne Shoe Line car­ried by the Ben­jamin Walk Corp., and the Johnathan Kayne Line is car­ried by WOW PROM.

Many other oppor­tu­ni­ties have come Kayne’s way since the Project Run­way Sea­son 3 expe­ri­ence and he would like all my fans to know that he is for­ever grate­ful to them for their support.