T’S A SUNNY SPRING DAY in Bur-
lington, Vermont, and Corinne
Prevot, 28, rides the bike path
along Lake Champlain to her com-
bination store-office-warehouse.
Her legs churn, pushing her beach
cruiser faster than it’d like to go.
She had an idea for a new pattern over break-
fast—bright, whimsical, and f loral, she’ll
call it Dreamscape—and she needs to tell
her team. Her business depends on creativ-
ity, and that’s hard to force. So when a new
design forms, she needs to nail it down.
Those designs are the basis of Skida, Pre-
vot’s Vermont-made headwear. The brand,
whose name means “go for a ski” in Swedish,
has Nordic skiing roots, but sells an arrayI
Prevot works with
designers but
isn’t afraid to hop
in and create her
own colorful pat-
tern. And when
she’s not working,
she does what
inspired her in the
first place, getting
outside.(^54) July/August 2019 _ PopularMechanics.com PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATT KIEDAISCH
THE LIFE
Corinne Prevot couldn’t find a hat that she
loved to wear, so she made one. When others
wanted their own, she made a business.
/ BY JAMES LYNCH /
The Rad Hatter