When COVID hit, property manager Juanairis Revis lost her job. The majority of residents in her building had perished during the worst of the pandemic. “I wasn’t doing anything; I was just collecting unemployment paychecks,” she said.
More than four months ago, tired of doing nothing all day and missing a sense of purpose, Revis enrolled in a 15-week course with Custom Collaborative, a nonprofit based in the Garment District. The course taught Revis and six other women the basics of clothesmaking and entrepreneurship, including trips to various ateliers and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for inspiration.
Founded in 2016 by Ngozi Okaro, who now serves as its executive director, Custom Collaborative aims to empower women through fashion and business. “I’m a tall woman, so I always have my clothes made,” Okaro said of her reason for founding the venture — being too tall for most women’s clothing is just one of Okaro’s frustrations with the mainstream fashion industry….
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