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City officials join Kelly Whitehead and her friends to cut the Ribbon at Klassy Kellec-
tion last month.
Klassy Kellection is

keeping it classy

By Sarah Shurge After healing from her transplant,
Some things in life seem meant to Whitehead returned to work and five
be. years passed by. She began feeling fa-
One minute you are a cosmetolo- tigued and something inside her told
gist. You blink, and then suddenly her to leave work.
you are a business owner of a unisex To compensate for the loss of her
boutique and salon. clientele, Whitehead decided to do
That’s exactly what happened to something to fill the void. She
Kelly Whitehead and that blink of an started selling clothes from her base-
eye was actually five years of time. ment to make up for the loss of in-
In March 2021, Whitehead come.
opened her business, Klassy Kellec- “I am not the type to ever take
tion at it’s new and upgraded loca- work off, but something was just
tion on Michigan Ave. Two doors telling me to leave,” said Whitehead.
down from US 12 Bar And Grill. “God had everything already worked
However, her journey to get here out and planned, I just didn’t know
was not a simple one. it yet.”
In October 2011, Whitehead un- And that’s when what seemed
derwent a kidney transplant. At the like ‘fate’ came into play.
time, she owned a hair salon called A friend of Whitehead told her
Hair Cafe. She loved making people about a wholesale show in Atlanta
feel beautiful and she loved working, called the Atlanta Apparel Show.
but because of the surgery, she had Whitehead went, signed up and
to shut down the salon so she could
have time to heal. See Kellection, page 5

4 · July 2021 · The Wayne Dispatch