Eight-year-old girl designs rainbow sunglasses in honour of NHS workers
‘Dream come true’ for schoolgirl Loa as her design is picked out of hundreds to be made by Cubitts
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Your support makes all the difference.A caring eight-year-old has honoured the nation’s NHS workers with her own rainbow sunglasses.
London schoolgirl Loa was inspired by the rainbow motifs displayed in millions of homes up and down the country when designing the shades.
The frames have two clouds, which you can look through, with a rainbow connecting them together.
Her design was picked as the winner out of hundreds of entries for Cubitts’s founders choice frame design award.
Loa’s hand-drawn sketch was transformed into a one-off pair for the budding designer, created in Cubitts’s London workshop.
The construction took 72 hours to complete as multiple layers of coloured acetate were cut and joined together for the final frames.
Loa said: “It was a dream come true. The best, most amazing memory ever. Thank you Cubitts for making my design.”
Her proud dad Jet added: “Thanks to Cubitts so much for a memorable experience for Loa.”
Tom Broughton, founder of Cubitts, said: “Loa’s design captures the nation’s spirit of looking out for those we love, and remembering the everyday heroes we rely on so much.”
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