By Cienna Ditri Listen to this Article Cienna Ditri “Style is power — not because it hides us, but because it reveals us.” There’s a revolution happening in fashion: one that isn’t stitched in spectacle, but in sincerity. For too long, accessibility sat on the sidelines, treated as an afterthought rather than included in the […]
Listen to this Article Adaptive Fashion Products Everyday Valet Dressing Tool Simplify your daily dressing routine with a single, elegant tool. Designed to provide effortless reach, the Everyday Valet helps you pull on clothing or slip into shoes without unnecessary bending or straining. Visit Website Makeup Grips Rediscover the joy and ease of your makeup
Listen to this Article On a warm Sydney afternoon, 72-year-old Linda — now living in a nursing home — slowly lowers her very swollen feet toward the gold sandals that once welcomed one foot and fought the other. This time, after a shoemaker added a discreet strip of elastic, both shoes finally slide on. She
Listen to this Article If you want to know the fastest way to make a grown woman swoon, forget roses and candlelight. Bring me a pair of shoes so dazzling they really should be paying rent. I may be a wheelchair user, but my love of shoes is as boundless as a toddler in a ball
Listen to this Article The story starts in a kid’s closet, not a Paris showroom. Mindy Scheier’s son Oliver was eight, tired of sweatpants and compromise. He walked in from school and said the sentence that flipped his mother’s life inside out. “Mom, I want to wear jeans like everybody else.” It was a simple
Listen to this Article Some people grow into their careers like ivy up a brick wall. Ramy Gafni cannonballed into his. He’d flirted with law, toyed with veterinary school, even hopped halfway across the planet to Australia before settling on the beauty world. However, he did not settle on beauty because it was an easy
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Listen to this Article With Paula Sojo, confidence doesn’t arrive late or linger in the shadows. It leads, bold and unapologetic, the first thing you see. At 23, the Toronto creator and co-founder of Osto.me Fashion treats an ostomy cover like a satin clutch or a perfect pair of hoops . . . definitely not as
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Listen to this Article Laura Wagner-Meyer is a South African fashion designer, model, and advocate who champions inclusivity and representation in the fashion and beauty industries. Born with a congenital neural tube defect, she defied early medical expectations and now uses crutches to walk, transforming her lived experience into a platform for change and empowerment.
Listen to this Article Laura Wagner Mayer’s fearless fashion The first time Laura Wagner-Mayer felt like she owned the room, she was seventeen, standing in front of a mirror in a custom-made dress for her matric farewell dance. Not just any dress. This one was shaped around her. A high-low hem that skimmed at just
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Listen to this Article Lady Fines At 6:30 a.m., while most of Tampa still sleeps, Lady Fines is wide awake, hunched over a glowing screen, designing in an iPad fashion app as she studies adaptive-feature notes from models she’s worked with. She flips between mood boards and digital templates, refining skirts with discreet clasps and
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