A teenager from Brooklyn is taking her sneakers straight to the Oscars after creating her own shoe line.
Her sneaker company features super cool, made-to-order kicks which will soon be in a Hollywood gift suite at the Oscars.Right now, 75 pairs are being made in Italy for nominees.
With her mom by her side, the seventh grader comes up with the looks at her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Traynham-Artis may be new to this game, just launching her company online last year, but she's always had a keen business sense."She was cutting up pieces of paper at the table and we asked her what she was doing," Traynham-Cooper said. "And she said 'I'm giving out business cards, just like that."
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