Lucy Jones is a part of fashion's reckoning with inclusivity.
graduated from Parsons' fashion design program in 2015, and has been designing exclusively for the disabled community ever since. The year she graduated, she won the Parsons"Womenswear Designer of the Year" award for her"Seated Design" collection of modular products wheelchair users, including clothes with extra fabric on kneecaps and elbows, zippers that run the length of the arm, and snaps and magnet closings.
"FFORA's primary goal and mission is to design a world that's accessible to all" she explains."For too long, the disability community has had to re-invent or design their own solutions for everyday products that most people take for granted. Everyone deserves to see themselves reflected in the products that they use."She's kicking of FFORA with the essentials, to help make daily life for wheelchair users easy and chic.
"I started doing this work after speaking with my cousin, who has hemiplegic cerebral palsy, which means he has limited mobility along one side of his body, about his daily routine," Jones explains."I quickly realized that there are a number of things that are difficult for him, but some felt like unnecessarily difficulties due to the bad design of certain products.
"For me, the most crucial aspect is to involve the people you wish to serve at all aspects of the design process in order to avoid pre-conceived ideas or generalizations about how someone lives their life," she says."The trick is to remain critical and curious, and treat everything as a blank canvas from ideation and concept all the way to messaging and marketing. I am driven by people's stories, so for me it starts with listening and getting to know someone.
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