Fashion designer Lesley Hampton stresses the importance of staying committed to personal and cultural values, even amid economic uncertainty.

Lesley Hampton fell in love with clothing at ten years old while watching Jeanne Beker host Fashion Television on Saturday evenings at her family’s home in Newfoundland. She was so enamoured with the stylish world she saw on the screen, she even set up a small sewing machine in front of the TV.

“It was so cool to have that Canadian angle within the international fashion scene,” she says. “That being said, you only saw one body type, you only saw one skin colour, so [a career in fashion] was always a dream of mine, but it didn’t really seem like it could be reality.”


The now 31-year-old Anishinaabe designer has come a long way since then – and s

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