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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, MAY 26, 2019
Looking Gucci
Flatbush ‘Project Runway’ contestant launches kickstarter
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 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
high-profi le design
fi rm, but
unfortunately
didn’t get very
far in the show,
and was
eliminated
in the third
episode.
B u t
the chic
Flatbush
resident
c l a ims
her elimi
n a t i on
had less to
do with the
quality of her
designs, and
more to do
with her reluctance
to throw shade at the other
contestants.
“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
KICKIN’ IT: Angela Sum is looking for locals to help fund her latest line of sweatshirts
on Kickstarter. Photo by Arnold Ian
owned by her mother, in addition
to partnering factories,
where workers will earn fair
wages in exchange for their highquality
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.
HELP WANTED: Angela Sum is looking
for her neighbors’ help making her
high-concept sweatshirts Photo by Jennin Kol
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