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The subversive French designer kitted out a huge swathe of performers of different abilities at the 2024 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony in Paris
Aug 29, 2024
Lucy Edwards and her guide dog walked the runway at the wildly inclusive London-based designer’s CPHFW debut
Aug 09, 2024
At the age of 11, Bebe Vio’s dreams of Olympic fencing glory were shattered by a life-threatening bout of meningitis. Now, 64 medals and 27 broken prostheses later, she’s an unstoppable force in athletics
Jun 04, 2024
In the last few years, the beauty industry has got better at starting conversations about products made for those with disabilities, but all too often these projects never go beyond talk
Feb 08, 2024
With brands like Vivienne Westwood and Sinéad O’Dwyer on her client list, Emma Matell is the fashion powerhouse fighting for better representation on the runway
Aug 17, 2023
Despite representing 24 per cent of the population, models with visible disabilities feature in 0.02 per cent of fashion campaigns
Jul 06, 2023
Wellness is everywhere – but the industry can be guilty of harnessing our fears around chronic illness and disability to sell us products
Jan 25, 2023
Accessible, adaptable clothing may be absent from catwalks across the world, but disabled people are finding liberation and fun in fashion on their own terms
Nov 17, 2022
New statistics show that life for minority groups in Britain is becoming more and more hostile
Oct 06, 2022
The designer’s Summer Intensive collection combines the dramatics of performance wear and teenage rebellion, and challenges the fashion industry’s relationship with the body in all its guises
Sep 22, 2022
Photographer Eimear Lynch goes backstage with Drag Syndrome, a collective of drag artists shaking off preconceived notions of disability and sexuality
Aug 17, 2022
Three years after losing her second leg to tampon-related Toxic Shock Syndrome, the model and the former athlete is on fighting form
Jun 03, 2022
Chloé Cooper Jones discusses her debut book Easy Beauty – an eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals
Apr 04, 2022
The beauty industry is slowly addressing its problem with diversity and inclusion, but these conversations are still neglecting disabled voices
Mar 07, 2022
Combatting the fashion industry’s exclusion of 14.1 million disabled people, the winner of the Faduma’s Fellowship design competition made her runway debut for SS22
Sep 21, 2021
