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Raising funds for a dream
F’bush ‘Project Runway’ contestant launches Kickstarter
By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Paper
She’s looking to make her
fashion dream a reality!
A Flatbush resident and
former contestant on the reality
show “Project Runway”
is asking Kings County fashionistas
to help fund her latest
project.
Angela Sum launched a
Kickstarter campaign on Monday
to help fund production
of her all-original sweatshirt
designs, which she said will
sell based on the merits of their
sleek, high-concept patterns —
not some throwaway logo.
“I really wanted to design
a sweatshirt where the design
wasn’t about the logo,” said
Sum. “My patterns are very
different than a traditional
sweatshirt.”
The Hong Kong-born, Canadian
raised fashion guru
— who moved to New York
Avenue near Lefferts Avenue
in 2015 — duked it out with
other would-be designers on
the popular reality show for
an opportunity to study the
fashion business under a highprofile
design firm, but unfortunately
didn’t get very far in
the show, and was eliminated
in the third episode.
But the chic Flatbush resident
claims her elimination
had less to do with the quality
of her designs, and more
to do with her reluctance to
throw shade at the other contestants.
Photos by Jennin Kol Photo by Arnold Ian
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latest line of sweatshirts on Kickstarter.
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“Everything was highly manipulated,”
she said. “I refused
to talk badly about anyone and
I think they hated me.”
But Sum’s disappointing
television career hasn’t
dimmed her fashion aspirations,
and the Flatbusher’s
sweatshirt fund-raiser
follows hot on the heels of
her highly successful debut
Kickstarter campaign,
where she raised a whopping
$125,000 in preorders
for a line of “sculpted” bags ,
which blew her $11,000 goal
out of the water.
In addition to looking super
fly, Sum claims her sweatshirts
are fashioned out of ecofriendly
materials, and will be
manufactured by a factory
owned by her mother, in addition
to partnering factories,
where workers will earn fair
wages in exchange for their
high-quality work.
“The people that sewed the
cloths, I know them personally
and they’re really important
to me,” said Sum. “I don’t
fight them for money.”
Backers of the campaign,
which had already met its
$10,000 goal as of May 16,
will be able to nab the sweatshirts
that retail for between
$100 and $150 at early bird
prices as low as $68.
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