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A 9-year-old fashion designer has received viral attention on her mom's TikTok for her designs. Kaia Aragon caught the eye of Vera Wang, who sent the young designer a sewing machine and a note.
When she turned 7, Tonya bought Kaia a sewing machine, and now at 9 she has hundreds of thousands of TikTok followers who can't get enough of her one-of-a-kind fashion creations.
"I wanted to be a fashion designer since I was like, 4 — and I've been sewing off and on since I was like, 5 years old," 9-year-old Kaia says.
9-year-old Kaia Aragon is on her way to becoming the world's next big fashion designer. The third-grader has gone viral on TikTok for creating trendy clothes that she's designed and sewed herself.
This is part of the KS3 Ethical Fashion Thematic Unit that encourages the Art and Design Unit to hold a pupil organised fashion show to display all the customised and recycled designs.
Introduction to the KS3 Ethical Fashion thematic unit, a teaching resource, which looks at the phenomenon of ‘fast fashion’ and its cost in terms of the environment and people’s lives.