From punk Rutland kid to NY fashion week – Castanet.net

Feb 23, 2026

From a self-professed “punk kid from Rutland” to the head of a growing healthy snack company and now a contributor to New York Fashion Week, Wendy Landry-Braun has had a transformational year.

So much so that on Thursday morning, after brushing off the sparkle from her debut at one of the world’s most prestigious fashion events and stepping back into her regular role as an Indigenous youth advocate at a Kelowna-area middle school, she was still trying to find the right words for her latest accomplishment.

“Because I grew up in low-income housing, fashion to me just seemed so unrealistic … something I could never afford, and now we’re breaking barriers,” Landry-Braun said Thursday morning, hours after a flight from New York brought her home.

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