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The adaptive fashion revolution

Meet the women pushing the fashion industry to design and make stylish clothes for people who have a disability, especially those who use a wheelchair.

Adaptive fashion, or stylish clothes for people who have a disability have not always been widely available, especially for those who use a wheelchair. Recently though, a fashion revolution has begun.

We hear from the women pushing the industry to change. British Somali Faduma Farah launched a fellowship for designers to come up with an inclusive collection that would be modelled at London Fashion Week. We speak to Faduma and the winning designer Harriet Eccleston, as well as stylist and influencer Heide Herkes who was one of the models featured on the runway during the show – the first ever to include wheelchair users. Plus, Maria O'Sullivan-Abeyratne, CEO and founder of Adaptista, tells us about the inclusive online shopping platform she’s building for the adaptive fashion market.

Presenter: Vivienne Nunis
Producer: Izzy Greenfield
Image: Faduma Farah, founder of the Faduma Fellowship; Credit: Â鶹Éç

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18 minutes

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Mon 24 Oct 2022 07:32GMT

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