Thanks to a crowdfunding campaign, Julie Meunier will be able to launch her collection of turbans and false fringes for women suffering from breast cancer.
Remain beautiful and feminine despite illness. This is the ambition of Julie Meunier, a young Niçoise suffering from breast cancer who has developed a range of turbans and false fringes intended for women who, like her, have lost their hair due to anti-cancer treatments. An alternative to the wig that it will launch next May thanks to the 35,000 euros collected on the crowdfunding platform Ulule. A snub to the banks who refused to grant him a loan.
Because like thousands of former cancer patients, Julie encountered many obstacles on her way to financing her project. “For 10 years after the disease, the banks will refuse to lend me money. In fact, it is the insurance that does not cover me. Over this period, I will therefore not be able to buy a car, an apartment or set up my business project, even if I am in remission…”, she explains to the Figaro.
Since February 14, 2017, the law has taken a leap forward. People who have suffered from cancer or hepatitis C will be able to borrow from banks without declaring their illness at the end of a period of ten or five years after the end of treatment. They will no longer pay additional premiums, often colossal, to their borrower insurance.
Unfortunately, Julie is just in remission and cannot benefit from the right to be forgotten. Stricken at the age of 27 with stage 3 breast cancer, she had to find an alternative to set up your project, Franjynes. His brand of turbans and false fringes is a great success with Internet users. “We reached the goal, and even better we reached 159%! she exclaimed on Instagram in a thank you message.
For women and girls
The young woman has been dreaming up this collection for nearly two years. Women’s accessories that she first develops for herself because wigs don’t suit her. “I felt like I was putting on a beanie every morning,” she explains. She then turns to turbans to which she associates false fringes. She imagines 7 different knots. One for each day of the week. “By tying my turbans, I was able to rediscover the feeling of combing my hair every morning. The knots have been therapeutic for me. Thanks to them, I didn’t suffer from the loss of my hair,” confides the young woman on her blog. And as her hair grows back, she never takes off her accessories.
“During this disenchanted parenthesis, it is more than possible to remain beautiful and feminine”, she assures, even after having undergone 24 chemotherapy sessions, 2 operations and 40 radiotherapy sessions. She wants to benefit as many people as possible.
Franjyne (for adults) and Franjynette (for little girls) fringes are in production. For the turbans, the young woman went to Portugal to find organic and soft fabrics “to wrap the skull in softness”. The adult range should cost €50 for the fringe and €40 for the turban, and the one for children will cost a few euros less (€40 for the fringe and €30 for the turban). The fringes will evolve according to hair regrowth. “We have no hair left, so let’s be extravagant,” says the blogger with a smile.
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