Launched in 2018, Left On Friday is the brainchild of co-workers-turned-friends-turned-co-founders, Laura Low Ah Kee and Shannon Savage, who, fittingly, met whereas working at one other beloved Canadian lively model: Lululemon. Low Ah Kee got here to the corporate considerably unexpectedly (“I believed I used to be gonna be there for 3 months, and I used to be there for 12 years”), working up from being a visible merchandiser in a retailer to a product assistant at HQ, to a service provider, to the pinnacle of pace to market. Savage began as a design assistant for the boys’s line earlier than increasing into extra classes, finally turning into VP of girls’s design. (Her “declare to fame,” as she places it? “The inception of the ladies’s run and outerwear strains.” NBD.)
Low Ah Kee says they “would have night time chats,” one in every of which planted the seed for what would change into Left on Friday: “We have been like, ‘Oh my god, there’s so many swim manufacturers, however no person is making lively swim that is lovely and you would additionally put on to the resort.’”
“It was nice that we have been at Lululemon throughout the time that we have been, as a result of the coaching and the publicity have been so strong. We did not stick in these tiny little lanes,” Savage says. “We may take all of these abilities and be very assured in beginning our personal firm.”
Savage and Low Ah Kee each left the corporate, for separate causes, in 2016. Trying again, they each say that they had optimistic experiences and realized worthwhile classes, similar to problem-solving for the buyer and, in flip, creating design options for the corporate. “I actually understood the market, the model Lululemon on the time, what was occurring within the style world, and what was occurring within the sport world, so I may tie it collectively and ship one thing that was impactful,” Low Ah Kee explains.
