Lexi Lawson, a McMath highschool senior in grade 12, has a ardour for trend.
“(I) love the concept of stitching as a full-time job,” mentioned the 17-year-old. “On the very least, half time to have the ability to create my very own costumes and doubtlessly promote my very own costumes to different individuals.”
Lawson says she would come to high school early, work via lunch, and keep late to see her designs come to life. And on Wednesday, his exhausting work paid off.
Lawson acquired a brand new stitching machine courtesy of Our Social Cloth, an East Vancouver-based nonprofit material retailer that helps tackle sustainability points within the trend business.
“We needed to assist these youngsters get these machines and break that value barrier to get extra concerned in fiber arts and encourage these younger, up-and-coming designers,” mentioned Maryan Webb, a volunteer with Our Social Cloth.
The ‘Sew-fund’ scholarship program guarantees to award 10 new stitching machines this college yr.
Along with inspiring the subsequent technology, the scholarship goals to inspire its recipients to design and produce clothes sustainably.
Webb says the nonprofit has saved greater than 30,000 kilos of textiles from ending up in landfills.
Lawson’s imaginative and prescient contains eco-style.
“I at all times dreamed that sooner or later I might be capable of create all my very own garments,” Lawson mentioned. “And it may be completely sustainable as a result of it is all my very own garments and I am not giving in to quick trend.”
Any pupil within the Decrease Mainland concerned about making use of for the scholarship can receive extra info on the Our Social Cloth web site.