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Cienna Ditri: Accessibility and luxury can coexist in fashion's next evolution

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Robert Essel: Using fashion to challenge the stigma around vitiligo

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Emma Lines is showing fashion what it looks like sitting down

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Antwan Tolliver of Zappos smiles broadly as he rolls down a white runway in a black wheelchair, wearing a matching olive-green jacket and pants, at a Runway of Dreams fashion show.

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Adaptive fashion takes centre stage at New York Fashion Week

Runway of Dreams brought adaptive and universal design to New York Fashion Week, with designs from adidas, Tommy Hilfiger, French Toast Adaptive, BetterMe, G-III Adaptive and Victoria’s Secret modelled by members of its disability-inclusive talent community.

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New app uses technology to make makeup more accessible for the visually impaired

Check My Look, an app designed with blind and partially sighted people, has won the 2026 Helen Hamlyn Design Award. Using computer vision and voice guidance, it helps users recreate their preferred makeup looks independently.

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Inclusive fashion fellowship puts disabled people into the design process

Open Style Lab’s 2026 Design Impact Fellowship brought disabled and non-disabled designers, engineers and occupational therapists together in London to develop inclusive clothing. Projects included seated formalwear and a ballet costume incorporating wearable sensory technology.

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The Roundup

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What if Disabled people designed fashion systems?

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Open call for Disabled creatives in Northern Ireland working in fashion

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Adaptive fashion and wearable technology take the spotlight in Sydney

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Adaptive fashion returns to the runway at Front Row in London

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Woven Together brings disability-based fashion design to the runway

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ADAPTIVE FASHION

BetterMe brings adaptive design to performance wear

BetterMe’s adaptive collection combines magnetic closures, modular construction and sensory-conscious design in performance wear co-created with disabled people.

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GUIDE Beauty puts a new grip on the makeup brush

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BEAUTY TECHNOLOGY

Lancôme HAPTA brings greater control to lipstick application

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Cadense rethinks footwear for people who wear AFOs

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Gotcha makes beauty packaging easier to open and use

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