Growing up wearing hand‑me‑downs in the northern Ontario town of Elliot Lake, Suzanne Angelique Kolev could hardly have imagined she’d become one of Canada’s most visible champions of fashion and philanthropy. Article content

“My mom would take me to the bin at the Goodwill with my sister, and we’d pick out the clothes that we liked,” she told National Post. Her first pair of new shoes came at eight years old. Article content

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Those were humble days for the family, and a time of struggle. The daughter of Hungarian immigrants, Miklos and Suzanna, Suzanne was just five months old when her father died at age 24 in a mining accident, while her mother ran a daycare to make ends meet.

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