LONDON : Fashion designer Victoria Jenkins unveiled stylish and practical clothes made for people with disabilities on the runway at London Fashion Week on Friday, in a collection intended to address a gap in the market.The 'Unhidden: A New Era in Fashion' event saw around 30 models who all live with a di
LONDON : Fashion designer Victoria Jenkins unveiled stylish and practical clothes made for people with disabilities on the runway at London Fashion Week on Friday, in a collection intended to address a gap in the market.
Jenkins, who has reduced mobility, first discovered a gap in the market for clothes designed with all bodies in mind in 2016 during a hospital stay when another patient raised it. "It also has openings all down the arm," she said, so that anyone going through treatment"can access their arm without taking any clothes off. It's about dignity."
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