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Why disability remains the beauty industry’s next inclusivity frontier

In the last few years, the beauty industry has got better at starting conversations about products made for those with disabilities, but all too often these projects never go beyond talk

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Feb 08, 2024

Zeynab Mohamed
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Meet the radical casting director changing the face (and body) of fashion

With brands like Vivienne Westwood and Sinéad O’Dwyer on her client list, Emma Matell is the fashion powerhouse fighting for better representation on the runway

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Aug 17, 2023

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Why is fashion so afraid of disabled models?

Despite representing 24 per cent of the population, models with visible disabilities feature in 0.02 per cent of fashion campaigns

Fashion

Jul 06, 2023

Daniel Rodgers
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Does wellness have ableism at its core?

Wellness is everywhere – but the industry can be guilty of harnessing our fears around chronic illness and disability to sell us products

Beauty

Jan 25, 2023

Hannah Turner
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How fashion helped these disabled people embrace their identity

Accessible, adaptable clothing may be absent from catwalks across the world, but disabled people are finding liberation and fun in fashion on their own terms

Fashion

Nov 17, 2022

Hannah Shewan Stevens
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Hate crimes have increased in the UK – again

New statistics show that life for minority groups in Britain is becoming more and more hostile

Life & Culture

Oct 06, 2022

James Greig
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Sinéad O’Dwyer on taking her goth orchestra to LFW

The designer’s Summer Intensive collection combines the dramatics of performance wear and teenage rebellion, and challenges the fashion industry’s relationship with the body in all its guises

Fashion

Sep 22, 2022

Anna Cafolla
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Photos of the boundary-breaking Drag Syndrome troupe

Photographer Eimear Lynch goes backstage with Drag Syndrome, a collective of drag artists shaking off preconceived notions of disability and sexuality

Art & Photography

Aug 17, 2022

Ashleigh Kane
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After two amputations, model Lauren Wasser is redefining beauty for herself

Three years after losing her second leg to tampon-related Toxic Shock Syndrome, the model and the former athlete is on fighting form

Beauty

Jun 03, 2022

Tish Weinstock
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This book explores what it’s like to navigate beauty in a disabled body

Chloé Cooper Jones discusses her debut book Easy Beauty – an eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals

Beauty

Apr 04, 2022

Ellen Atlanta
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When will disabled representation become a priority in beauty?

The beauty industry is slowly addressing its problem with diversity and inclusion, but these conversations are still neglecting disabled voices

Beauty

Mar 07, 2022

Dominic Cadogan
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Harriet Eccleston is the adaptive fashion designer making her mark at LFW

Combatting the fashion industry’s exclusion of 14.1 million disabled people, the winner of the Faduma’s Fellowship design competition made her runway debut for SS22

Fashion

Sep 21, 2021

Hannah Shewan Stevens
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Handsome: the documentary resisting the ‘feelgood’ disability trope

Nick Bourne and his brother Alex, who has Down’s syndrome, are the subject of a road trip doc exploring the joy of brotherhood as well as uncomfortable issues around disability

Film & TV

Sep 06, 2021

Felicity Martin
Art & PhotographyThisAbility

The disability fund offering grants to BIPOC and minority creatives

ThisAbility has launched its Disability Radical Imagination Impact Fund to support young disabled creatives

Art & Photography

Aug 05, 2021

Life & CultureEngland’s ‘Freedom Day’ 2

‘Freedom Day’ doesn’t mean freedom for disabled and vulnerable people

People with disabilities, chronic illness, long COVID, and mental health issues speak on the lifting of all restrictions, and reflect on their hopes for how the perception and treatment of illness might change in a post-pandemic world

Life & Culture

Jul 19, 2021

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