The One About Activism in Fashion with Anishinaabe Designer Lesley Hampton!
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Lesley Hampton is an Anishinaabe Artist and Fashion Designer focused on mental health awareness, body positivity, and authentic representation in fashion, film, and media. She is the Creative Director of LESLEY HAMPTON, an indigenous-owned, size inclusive clothing and accessory brand based in Toronto, ON. She is also a signed curve model, and speaker on Indigenous entrepreneurship. Today Lesley joins us to share about how she got into design, her work process, activism in fashion and seeing her pieces on red carpets, on Lizzo & in Vogue! Plus, we discuss the meaning of the scarf she designed for the new Papaya Box with Knix!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.5 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.7 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital space together. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm so excited and honored to have today's guest on. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm a huge fan of hers. |
| 0:35.3 | And we've recently connected in real life because we are |
| 0:38.6 | doing something pretty collaboratively cool together. Today I'm welcoming Leslie Hampton. Leslie is an |
| 0:44.6 | a nicheanabe artist and fashion designer focused on mental health awareness, body positivity, |
| 0:49.5 | and authentic representation in fashion, film, and media. She's the creative director of Leslie Hampton, an indigenous-owned size-inclusive clothing |
| 0:58.1 | and accessory brand based in Toronto, Ontario. |
| 1:00.9 | She's also assigned curve model and speaker on indigenous entrepreneurship. |
| 1:05.7 | Leslie has been described as an important indigenous face in the Canadian fashion landscape |
| 1:10.3 | by the Globe and Mail. |
| 1:11.7 | And it said, wherever her career takes her activism and style will always go hand in hand, |
| 1:17.5 | according to the National Post. |
| 1:19.6 | She's been featured in such amazing publications such as Vogue, and I'm so excited to have her on today |
| 1:24.8 | to talk about our little collaboration together in the papaya box with Nix. |
| 1:30.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 1:31.2 | Hi, Leslie. |
| 1:32.1 | Hi. |
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