Adaptive Fashion Designer

elasticated waistbands or within the pockets there are buttonhole openings to pass tubes through rather than over and there are seated options so for wheelchair users so like the garments are actually shaped to a seated position there's magnetic fastenings there are openings in a lot of the sleeves there's no buttons anywhere but we have just a variety of access openings so that you don't have to expose your body to access

elasticated waistbands or within the pockets there are buttonhole openings to pass tubes through rather than over and there are seated options so for wheelchair users so like the garments are actually shaped to a seated position there's magnetic fastenings there are openings in a lot of the sleeves there's no buttons anywhere but we have just a variety of access openings so that you don't have to expose your body to access

Parts of your body, if you need to, if you're going through medical treatment or for whatever reason need to access a bit of your body without exposing yourself.

Parts of your body, if you need to, if you're going through medical treatment or for whatever reason need to access a bit of your body without exposing yourself.

I mean, this is the thing, I do consider maternity wear to be like the initial adaptive and we just sort of stopped. I think the reason we didn't go any further is that traditionally people in retail and in jobs and in fashion, if you're disabled or chronic sick, you're not hired. So people don't consider it because then people are not in the room.

I mean, this is the thing, I do consider maternity wear to be like the initial adaptive and we just sort of stopped. I think the reason we didn't go any further is that traditionally people in retail and in jobs and in fashion, if you're disabled or chronic sick, you're not hired. So people don't consider it because then people are not in the room.

I do, yes. So I studied fashion design and graduated in 2008 and then went on my own personal journey with disability and sickness. And I had life-saving surgery in 2012. But it wasn't until 2016 I was on a hospital ward going through one of many surgical procedures and it was somebody else. and she'd gone through ovarian cancer. She was stuck in sort of like T-shirts and jogging bottoms.

I do, yes. So I studied fashion design and graduated in 2008 and then went on my own personal journey with disability and sickness. And I had life-saving surgery in 2012. But it wasn't until 2016 I was on a hospital ward going through one of many surgical procedures and it was somebody else. and she'd gone through ovarian cancer. She was stuck in sort of like T-shirts and jogging bottoms.

You know, she couldn't go to a wedding, she couldn't go to a party. And when she said it to me, I was like, God, that's so obvious. There were some people trying to address this need, but it wasn't from necessarily a fashion point of view. It was more from the people that were dressing the wearer rather than what the wearer might want to wear themselves.

You know, she couldn't go to a wedding, she couldn't go to a party. And when she said it to me, I was like, God, that's so obvious. There were some people trying to address this need, but it wasn't from necessarily a fashion point of view. It was more from the people that were dressing the wearer rather than what the wearer might want to wear themselves.

Yeah, it was very functional, very medical, very hospitalised.

Yeah, it was very functional, very medical, very hospitalised.

If we only talk about disability, if we're ignoring temporary disability or the elderly and age-related disability, it's everyone. I'm one of the 80% of people that acquire their disability. Anyone at any time could join this.

If we only talk about disability, if we're ignoring temporary disability or the elderly and age-related disability, it's everyone. I'm one of the 80% of people that acquire their disability. Anyone at any time could join this.

I think the men's wear cargo pants because there's so much built into it. For all the trousers, they all have loops in the inside. So if somebody else is dressing you, they can help you get dressed without having to touch your skin. All the pockets have tube access. They're all elasticated.

I think the men's wear cargo pants because there's so much built into it. For all the trousers, they all have loops in the inside. So if somebody else is dressing you, they can help you get dressed without having to touch your skin. All the pockets have tube access. They're all elasticated.

If you are an amputee, the hem opens up to your knee so you can get into the trousers and then open them up to attach your prosthetic. And then we put a range of pockets on so that if you're a wheelchair user and you're sat down, you can still access all of the pockets without anything falling out.

If you are an amputee, the hem opens up to your knee so you can get into the trousers and then open them up to attach your prosthetic. And then we put a range of pockets on so that if you're a wheelchair user and you're sat down, you can still access all of the pockets without anything falling out.

Oh, it's my dream. No one shops in one shop. And, you know, my aesthetic might not be anybody else's. We should have choice.

Oh, it's my dream. No one shops in one shop. And, you know, my aesthetic might not be anybody else's. We should have choice.

No one shops in one shop. And, you know, my aesthetic might not be anybody else's. We should have choice.

No one shops in one shop. And, you know, my aesthetic might not be anybody else's. We should have choice.