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Purple Tuesday: Who Knew? Who Cares?
Purple Tuesday encourages businesses to commit to at least one improvement in accessibility or customer service.
The Power of Proper Labelling
Functional labeling isn't about creating separate categories—it's about giving all shoppers more information to find exactly what they need, when they need it.
Fashion and the Tripp Trapp Chair
The Tripp Trapp chair’s designed to grow and adapt with children as they develop, and it made me think—wouldn’t it be great if fashion could do the same for us, adjusting to life’s inevitable changes?
Innovate UK invests in our inclusive retail solution
Our vision is a future where fashion is truly accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ability, or size.
National Inclusion Week and the Fashion Industry
"By embracing disability inclusion, we're not just creating clothes; we're creating a more inclusive society".
Caroline Rush, CEO of The British Fashion Council
From fast fashion to thoughtful choices: Insights from The Good Clothes Show
Patrick Grant's belief in thoughtful consumption aligns perfectly with our mission at StyleAbility.
Runway to boardroom: Where is fashion with inclusivity?
"It’s a movement, not a moment, therefore accessibility and disability inclusion are everyone’s responsibility and opportunity".
Pascal Brun, VP Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Zalando
Beyond the spotlight: Rethinking disability in the context of the 2024 Paralympics
"Considering What?" - Channel 4's 2024 Paralympics campaign challenges patronizing attitudes.
Adaptive innovations in Olympic sportswear: A global perspective
“Over a billion people in the world are estimated to live with a disability. Our role as a leading maker of sportswear is to remove the barriers they face in sport, to help reach a parity in service for Olympic and Paralympic competitors, and to learn from this community to benefit all”.
Jacqueline King, Design Director, Adidas
The value of inclusive product data
Data needs to reflect how customers think about and search for fashion products, and reflect their specific needs.
Why stop at 60?
“We surveyed 2000 UK adult shoppers aged 18 to 60, split in age groups: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-60”.
Embracing adaptive fashion: A call to all designers
A welcome new resource for showing designers how to successfully apply co-design processes inclusive of disability to their fashion practise.
Inclusive fashion, inclusive minds & mental wellness
To quote Dr Caroline Mair “Fashion is Psychology”. ‘Clothes are the closest thing we have to our body, it’s our second skin and we use clothes as an outward display of our self and our identity.’ What we wear can reflect who we are, effect our behaviour and also how people behave towards us and perceive us.
The power of inclusive design: Lessons from NHS glasses
From a sign of “nerdiness” eyewear has become one of the biggest fashion accessories of all time.
Back to school & ‘easy’ dressing
“Excellent ASDA!! No labels and no buttons especially kind to children with sensory difficulties. The velcro closing instead of buttons makes it so quick and easy to get on. So cheap and a brilliant idea”.
Parent feedback on Asda’s Easy On school polo shirts
New organic adaptive childrenswear
“This amazing adaptive range takes us another step forward on our journey to inclusivity.”
Nick Pecorelli, founder of Little Green Radicals
Disability activists grace cover of British Vogue
“Accessibility and disability inclusion is everyone’s responsibility and opportunity.” Sinéad Burke
QVC on a journey to “bring shopping to life for everyone”
“One of the basic comforts of our life is being able to have fun shopping and to find beautiful and useful things”. Selma Blair
The Valuable 500 and why ‘disability is your business’
The Valuable 500 and why ‘disability is your business’
Fitness, fashion and making activewear more inclusive
Founded by Dr. Bryna Chrismas, Ran By Nature are on a mission to make fitness and fashion inclusive for every woman