By zestybuzz 
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 assumed 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 velocity to market. Savage began as a design assistant for the lads’s line earlier than increasing into extra classes, ultimately turning into VP of girls’s design. (Her “declare to fame,” as she places it? “The inception of the ladies’s run and outerwear traces.” NBD.)
Low Ah Kee says they “would have evening chats,” one among which planted the seed for what would turn out to be Left on Friday: “We have been like, ‘Oh my god, there’s so many swim manufacturers, however no one 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 in the course of the time that we have been, as a result of the coaching and the publicity have been so sturdy. We did not stick in these tiny little lanes,” Savage says. “We might take all of these expertise and be very assured in beginning our personal firm.”
Savage and Low Ah Kee each left the corporate, for separate causes, in 2016. Wanting again, they each say that they had constructive experiences and discovered worthwhile classes, resembling problem-solving for the patron 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 might tie it collectively and ship one thing that was impactful,” Low Ah Kee explains.