Keri Lynn SanFelippo
Stripped down to her bare inner-self. being true to who she is as a person, whatever Keri learned ahs been from Christina Aguilera’s Stripped album-the one who has given her strength. She is fully alive, more then most. Stripped, vanity, and here to stay. Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with an interest in entertainment in 2002 and emerging into the scene in 2005, Keri now works as a fashion designer, fashion stylist, fashion coordinator, model, modeling instructor, actor, and talent booker. Working freelance and taking control over her career has introduced her to a large cliental list and amount of followers on social networking sites. Today, she is still working in a fast pace work environment and carrying on many roles in the industry. Everything from instructing people of all ages into modeling and acting, to managing her own career in the entertainment and fashion world. Introduced in 2005 when she was a senior in high school, Keri began taking a 6 month educational program at John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center in Brookfield, WI for modeling and acting.
Going through the program was an easier and a quicker way to get her foot in the door and to learn about the industry. Still to this day, it was the best experience and decision she has made for herself. While she was in high school, she continued her interest and designed her own logo by using her initials KLS (Keri Lynn SanFelippo) that she has used for her career in entertainment. Later, she decided to trademark her logo under the USPTO. In fall of 2005, Keri enrolled in college at Mount Mary for Apparel Design and Development and transferred to a couple other colleges after that with the same major.
During college, she was working in retail for experience in the fashion field and started getting booked and booking her own modeling jobs. In 2007, she signed on as a modeling instructor as well as a few other positions at John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center. During the Summer of 2006, she booked one of her first biggest modeling jobs as a Milwaukee Mile Grid Girls for the Milwaukee Mile. Since 2005 and still today, Keri has been working for more then a few jobs at the same time while attending school-which was not an easy task. Furthering her experience in her career, she was modeling for advertisements such as Decibel nightclub, Casablanca restaurant, and the Cutting Station salon. She played the role as a Zombie Doll “Zoey Macrabe” at Zombie Con X Horror Movie convention in Milwaukee. She has been working backstage as and assistant, coordinator, and dresser for fashion shows in the Milwaukee and Chicago area. She Designed and constructed 1930’s flapper dresses for models for “Puttin on the Ritz” New Years Eve event at Potawatomi Bingo Casino. She was featured as an extra in 2 independent films of “Spade County Massacre” and “Feeding Frenzy.” In 2011, Keri continued to model for varies of liquor brands and acted in Red Letter Media’s film reviews. In Fall on 2011, she was a model in Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s biggest fashion show called RunUp to Runway where she had modeled for local designer Judi Rath and from Bravo’s Project Runway show Ramon Lawrence.
She had assisted, backstage and centerstage coordinated twice The Wedding Show in Green Bay, Wisconsin for a wedding expo. In January of 2012, Keri was signed and contracted as a Jagermeister girl with one of the top and well compensated promotional model companies All State Promotions. She expanded her resume and started hosting/filming events such as Hal’s Harley Davidson-Hal-a-palooza event. Summer of 2012 she was a model for 95 WIIL Rock radio station at WIIL Rock Fest. The list goes on and so forth. While her career continues to grow and with more competition emerging or have been present for a while, Keri never look at the industry as a race for the biggest/best booking. She is the person that loves working with talented people whether it is; fashion designers, stylist, choreographers, models, photographers, directors..etc. They are all in it because they love it, have a passion, and are really good at what they do. Working with other professionals is how they learn to grow and become more knowledgeable in the industry. She is always down for collaboration with others in the same profession as herself and will always be willing to assist in any way she can. She enjoys keeping herself insanely busy. During any free time that she can swing into her schedule, she attends music festivals, concerts, and entertainment events, beach for some r&r time. She has a big heart for the rock n’ roll/metal/pop music.
Summertime in Milwaukee is her absolute favorite time of the year! She is never the person to find sitting on the couch watching television, instead she is at the gym. She is a true believer that all television sets should be broken. Her MacBook Pro and iPhone are her life-she is on it 24/7 due to her career in which she manages.
She personally doesn’t have a set fashion style of her own. Her own style can go from cozy/comfort, casual, rock n’ roll, lingerie, and upscale fashion diva with heels and Guess sunglasses! Her closet and dresser drawers are color coordinated by sections of garments. She has a huge lingerie, perfume, and purse collection. She enjoy reading autobiographies of musicians/bands. She has been a vegetarian/pescetarian for 8 years now. She is OCD. She is an independant woman. She loves going out to eat at resturants by herself. No one will ever find her in the kitchen cooking/baking. Currently today, after exactly 10 years of teaching modeling & acting at John Casablancas, She has made a hard decision and resigned in April 2017. She is not parting ways with the company or MTM Agency, she will continue to support and work when needed and or booked. She will use the extra time to stay focused and to do more bookings in her career of fashion, modeling, and entertainment as it was hard to book and balance while teaching. She is also keeping her options open for relocation out of the state for an opportunity that may come her way in the near future.