BY COLIN MIXSON
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
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 highprofi
le design fi rm,
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
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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
fl y, Sum
claims her
sweatshirts are
fashioned out of
eco-friendly 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
fi ght 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.
Looking Gucci
Flatbush ‘Project Runway’ contestant launches kickstarter
HELP WANTED: Angela
Sum is looking for her
neighbors’ help making her
high-concept sweatshirts
Photo by Jennin Kol