Orla Kiely, OBE (born 1963) is an Irish fashion designer. She began her career designing hats, and moved on to design work on handbags and a variety of other items including kitchenware and cars. She received a master's degree from the Royal College of Art. She worked with several companies before setting up her own business.

Kiely Rowan PLC, the retail and wholesale entity operating the fashion business under Kiely's name, ceased trading on 17 September 2018, but has continued selling through its distribution partners.
Kiely credits her grandmother with being the creative influence in her life. Her father was an accountant; her mother studied science before being forced to give up work by her employers after she married.

Kiely qualified as a textile designer at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and moved to New York to work for a wallpaper and fabric designer.She moved to England to work for Esprit while studying for a master's degree at the Royal College of Art in London,primarily in knitwear. In her exit show at the RCA, she displayed a range of hats which were purchased by Harrods. She did design work for Marks & Spencer and Habitat.

She began designing handbags after her father noted during her first London Fashion Week that everyone was carrying a handbag, but no one was wearing a hat. In the late 1990s, she had the idea to laminate cloth for handbags: "At the time, no one was doing anything like it. Laminated fabric, in those days, meant tablecloths."

Together with her husband, Dermott Rowan, she formed The Orla Kiely Partnership in 1997. Her husband explained in an interview, "Nothing was planned, the whole thing started by accident. Kiely was consulting for other companies and designing her own collection at the weekend, which she would give to me to organize. We had this chaotic situation where deliveries of her designs would come into our apartment and if I didn't get them out by 5pm, there was nowhere to sit!" Kiely showed in London Fashion Week and secured her first export orders. The following year, they took the collection to Premiere Class.

She has been awarded the title of Visiting Professor of Textiles at the Royal College of Art and was made a Senior Fellow in 2016.

In June 2014, Kiely was awarded an honorary degree from the University for the Creative Arts.

In 2015, Kiely was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Design. She also was made an Honorary Doctor of Norwich University of the Arts.

The influence of this Shankill-born creative is quite incredible - you can bask in her graphic print world 24/7. You can make breakfast in one of her kitchens, drive to work in one of her Citroen cars, dress in her clothes, carry her handbags, wear her Clarks shoes, get digital on her bespoke Apple Mac, stare at her wallpaper, and contemplate life sitting on one of her chairs. It's all about to get a lot bigger, as her UK reps indicated recently when Orla was a no-show on the London Fashion Week schedule. The publicist informed me that Orla is "doing something else very exciting in a different territory". Watch this Irish woman's influence expand even further.