Media Rowley has appeared as a judge on the reality television programs 24 Hour Catwalk, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway and Design Star and has been a guest on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Gossip Girl, Celebrity Jeopardy, and the Late Show with David Letterman, among other programs. The TV series Return to Amish on the TLC network follows ex-Amish Kate Stoltzfus as she interns at Rowley's design company. She has written and co-written several books: Slim: A Fantasy Memoir (Random House, 2007) The Swell Dressed Party (with co-author 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) Personal life Rowley's first husband was photographer Tom Sullivan, who died of cancer at the age of 32 in 1994. Rowley married Brooklyn sculptor William Keenan Jr., with whom she had a daughter, Kit Keenan (born 1999). Kit released her own line of clothing in 2018, titled KIT. In 2019, Cynthia and Kit created a podcast together called Ageless. In 2021, Kit was a contestant on The Bachelor, where she alluded to having a well-known mother After Rowley and Keenan Jr. divorced, she married William "Bill" Powers, an art dealer, writer, and owner of the Half Gallery in Manhattan's Upper East Side, on September 17, 2005, at the home of photographer Peter Beard. References External links Official website British Vogue "Vespa Lady" Bio and photo of Cynthia Rowley — Crain's New York Business 40 under 40 — 1997 HGTV Design Star official website Living people American fashion designers American women fashion designers Participants in American reality television series School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni People from Barrington, Illinois 1958 births 21st-century American women