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There are still too few publications where fashion, disability, and genuine self-expression sit comfortably in the same conversation.
When our first issue launched, the response caught me off guard. Not just in volume, but in honesty. People wrote to us about their daily frustrations with the industry, the brands they return to, and their deeply personal and sometimes complicated relationships with getting dressed each morning. Reading those responses, I kept coming back to the same feeling: that fashion and beauty carry far more weight in people’s lives than the industry often gives them credit for.
This second issue brings together a carefully chosen selection of people and work. Pink canes, Kente prosthetics, wheelchairs styled as part of everyday looks. Designers, artists, and individuals moving through the same space in different ways. What appears in these pages is only a fragment of something much larger, one with no single definition of style, only different ways of dressing, creating, and showing up.
This magazine is about building something: a conversation that keeps going. Each issue is part of that, and this one is no different.
Thank you for reading. I hope something in this issue stays with you.
Ruby von Wiese
