By the time Kayla Curtis becomes a doctor, she’ll be running at least two businesses.
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By the time Kayla Curtis becomes a doctor, she’ll be running at least two businesses.
By the time Kayla Curtis becomes a doctor, she’ll be running at least two businesses.
The fourth-year University of Manitoba medical student is the founder of WPG Local Cleaners Inc., a cleaning business she started in 2024 to fund her education. Today Curtis is launching MediLuxe Scrubs Ltd., a brand that offers functional and fashionable scrubs for women health-care workers.
“I’ve always loved fashion and creativity, and after spending the last several years in medicine, those two parts of my life naturally started to come together,” Curtis said.
Medical student and entrepreneur Kayla Curtis is launching MediLuxe Scrubs Ltd., a brand that offers functional and fashionable scrubs for women health-care workers.
What you wear doesn’t make you a better clinician, the 28-year-old Winnipegger added, but function, professionalism and personal expression don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
“I simply wanted to create another option for people who enjoy a more structured and fashion-informed approach to workwear outside of the operating room, where traditional scrubs are required,” she said.
MediLuxe’s first collection includes two styles: “the tailored” is sleeveless and includes lapels, while “the wrap” has short sleeves and a small collar. The scrubs are available in three colours — venous teal, circadian black and basal grey — and sizes range from extra small to extra large.
“Women should be able to take pride in how they present themselves without that being interpreted as taking away from how seriously they take their profession,” Curtis said.
Women’s representation in medicine has changed significantly over the years, she added, pointing to 2024 data from the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada that shows women now make up more than 60 per cent of medical students in Canada.
While creating the designs, Curtis considered the different stages women may go through during their careers. MediLuxe’s offerings include wrap-style and adjustable designs that are pregnancy and breastfeeding friendly.
“Challenging traditional scrub design isn’t just about making scrubs more fashionable,” Curtis said. “It’s about asking whether we can design health-care workwear more thoughtfully around the women who are increasingly wearing it.”
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