When she started beading full-time during the pandemic, Winnipegger Jessie Pruden never thought her earring designs would end up at Paris Fashion Week.
Pruden, who is Métis with roots in Stony Plain, Man., taught herself how to bead less than two years ago after a knee injury forced her to leave her career in the restaurant industry.
Now she runs her business Bead n’ Butter online. Her work attracted the attention of New York-based fashion retailer Flying Solo and they offered her a spot to attend the week-long event in France Paris Feb. 28 to March 8.
“Taking my little, small business that started in
