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Shannon "Summer" Wilson is a Canadian fashion designer, businesswoman, artist, and philanthropist. She is best known for her former role as lead designer at the yoga apparel company Lululemon Athletica.[1] In 2014, she founded Kit and Ace,[2] a technical luxury apparel company.[3][4]
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Wilson received her BFA in fashion design from the University of Victoria.[5]
In 2014, Wilson and her stepson JJ Wilson founded Kit and Ace, a luxury T-shirt retailer made with a proprietary cashmere blend. The first studio pop-up location opened in Vancouver in July of that year.[citation needed]
In 2007, along with her husband, Chip Wilson, founder of Lululemon Athletica, she established imagine1day, a nonprofit organization committed to bringing primary education to 80 percent of children in Ethiopia by 2030.[6] In 2012, the Wilson family donated $1.5 million to the Vancouver Biennale.[7] The donation paid for a metal sculpture designed by Yue Minjun, titled A-maze-ing Laughter, which currently sits in Morton Park, Vancouver.[8]
In 2022, the Wilsons donated $100M to the BC Parks Foundation, the largest conservation donation in Canadian history, to protect and preserve British Columbia's ecosystem.[9]
In 2024, Wilson debuted her first art collection, Organic Formulas.[10]
In 2014, Wilson received an honorary doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.[11] In 2015, she and her husband received an honorary doctorate from Kwantlen Polytechnic University.[12]
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