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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. In 2014, she founded Kit and Ace, a technical luxury apparel company.
Education
Wilson received her BFA in fashion design from the University of Victoria.
Business
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.
Other activities
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. In 2012, the Wilson family donated $1.5 million to the Vancouver Biennale. The donation paid for a metal sculpture designed by Yue Minjun, titled A-maze-ing Laughter, which currently sits in Morton Park, Vancouver.
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.
In 2024, Wilson debuted her first art collection, Organic Formulas.
Awards and honours
In 2014, Wilson received an honorary doctorate from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design. In 2015, she and her husband received an honorary doctorate from Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
References
External links
Kit and Ace official website
Shannon may refer to:
People
Shannon (given name)
Shannon (surname)
Shannon (American singer), stage name of singer Brenda Shannon Greene (born 1958)
Shannon (South Korean singer), British-South Korean singer and actress Shannon Arrum Williams (born 1998)
Shannon, intermittent stage name of English singer-songwriter Marty Wilde (born 1939)
Claude Shannon (1916–2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory"
Places
= Australia
=Shannon, Tasmania, a locality
Hundred of Shannon, a cadastral unit in South Australia
Shannon, a former name for the area named Calomba, South Australia since 1916
Shannon River (Western Australia)
Shannon, Western Australia, a locality in the Shire of Manjimup
Shannon National Park, a national park in Western Australia
= Canada
=Shannon, New Brunswick, a community
Shannon, Quebec, a city
Shannon Bay, former name of Darrell Bay, British Columbia
Shannon Falls, a waterfall in British Columbia
= Ireland
=River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland
Shannon Cave, a subterranean section of the River Shannon
Shannon Pot, source of the River Shannon
Shannon Estuary
Shannon, County Clare, Ireland, a town near Shannon Airport
Shannon Region, unofficial region in Ireland
= United States
=Shannon, Alabama
Shannon, Georgia
Shannon, Illinois
Shannon, Kansas
Shannon, Kentucky
Shannon, Mississippi
Shannon, North Carolina
Shannon, Texas
Shannon County, Missouri
Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, formerly known as Shannon County
Shannon River (Minnesota)
Shannon Creek, a stream near North Cascades National Park, Washington
Lake Shannon, a reservoir in Whatcom County, Washington
= Elsewhere
=Shannon, New Zealand
Shannon Island, Greenland
Arts and entertainment
Shannon (1961 TV series), starring George Nader (syndicated)
Shannon (1981 TV series), starring Kevin Dobson (Columbia Broadcasting System)
"Shannon" (song), a song by Henry Gross
Organisations
Shannon Development, a development company in Ireland
Shannon Racing, a defunct motor racing team
Shannon Racing Cars, a defunct Formula One constructor
Shannon RFC, a rugby club in Limerick
Transportation
Shannon Airport, Ireland
Shannon (locomotive), an 0-4-0WT steam locomotive built in 1857
Shannon-class lifeboat, a British type of lifeboat
Other uses
Earl of Shannon, a title in the Irish peerage
HMS Shannon, several Royal Navy ships
Shannon (horse) (1941–1955), Australian Hall-of-Fame racehorse
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, an Irish university
shannon (unit), the information content of one bit
Shannon, a satellite - see Lynk Global
See also
Shannon index, a biodiversity index
Noisy-channel coding theorem, sometimes called Shannon Limit, the theoretical limit to capacity of a communication channel
Shannan (disambiguation)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Deadpool
- Shannon Elizabeth
- The Breakup Girl
- Passengers (film 2008)
- 8 Mile (film)
- The Conjuring
- Meadowland (film)
- Fisika statistik
- Brisbane Roar FC
- Hotel Transylvania
- Shannon Wilson
- Wilson Shannon
- Chip Wilson
- Shannon & Wilson
- Shannon (song)
- Kit and Ace
- Shannon Briggs
- Shannon Sharpe
- Alfred Packer
- Cannibal! The Musical
