“1. When did you get involved in fashion at first? What inspired you to do so?
I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland and moved to Canada in 1989. My interest in fashion started when I was 8 – I wanted to be a makeup artist and loved playing with my mum’s makeup. I wanted to be a fashion designer in my teens and was lucky that the high school in Oshawa I went to had a fashion program. It wasn’t until my teacher said the chances of actually owning your own label were slim in Canada and most people who go to school for design end up becoming a pattern maker or in manufacturing. It was then that I decided to change direction.”
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