Tumble RIVER — Last calendar year, Fall River native Jeremy Lavoie acquired his huge crack as a manner designer. Now, he’s making on that accomplishment and bringing it back again to his hometown as substantially as he can.
“It’s so frustrating, but it’s these kinds of a superior experience much too,” he explained.
In 2021, Lavoie, labored with his brother, Jonathan Lavoie, and a different spouse, Stephan Solway, to launch J.L. Creative Studios to offer apparel he’s intended.
In the months that adopted, his brand name quickly picked up steam, with requests for his signature tailor made canvas jackets and vests coming in from NBA players and musical artists.
And, he’s begun working as a own stylist for men and women like professional basketball player Ta’Quan Zimmerman and celebrity car or truck broker Brandon Medford. He broke into that small business by forming connections with folks who acquired personalized jackets from him.
“Now, it is grow to be a partnership,” he said.

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Now, Lavoie is obtaining observed by larger corporations which include Carhartt, Style Nova and Ethika that are working with him and delivering outfits for his consumers.
Lavoie, a graduate of B.M.C. Durfee Superior Faculty, began doing the job with his alma mater’s fashion division past 12 months to teach pupils about the sector together with lessons on sewing and style and design. He’s also labored with other educational facilities in the city like Talbot Middle School and Resiliency Preparatory Academy.
On July 30, he’ll be web hosting an outside event (probable at Kennedy Park) to speak to children about the fashion sector, with strategies for a several NBA players to show up at. Later this yr, he also hopes to choose on a number of Fall River students as interns and carry them to vogue functions in New York Metropolis and to his embroidery store in Providence.

Together with training them the ins and outs of the market, Lavoie also desires to persuade young folks to establish their individual own models and have the assurance to advertise themselves and kind associations that can help them in the upcoming.
“I get these thoughts all the time, ‘how did you satisfy all these people?’” he said. “I want kids to seriously see, ‘you can do this far too. You can make these connections too if you put the operate in.’”
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