“At the beginning, I didn’t talk about my project at all,” she recalls about conceiving the idea for a bag brand after coming up empty-handed during her search for a chic-yet-practical maternity bag while pregnant with her second child. Because of her background in the telecommunications sector and with no formal design training, Lambert said she wasn’t forthcoming about her ambitions because she had a sense of imposter syndrome a notion that’s reported to disproportionately affect women, people of colour and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
The positive feedback she received from the panelists on
Dans L’Oeil du Dragon as well as the outpouring of interested retailers and customers who saw her on the show spurred Lambert forward. “It made me think, okay, you’re in the right place with this. And it gave me the confidence to continue.”