Designing for Disability (Sinéad Burke) | BoF VOICES

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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

It’s Time for Adaptive Fashion. Disabled people have long been ignored by the fashion industry, but it’s high time for reform, argued Sinéad Burke on the #BoFVOICES 2017 stage.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to the B.OF podcast.
0:06.9	Voices is the most stimulating gathering of fashion industry leaders on the planet.
0:11.9	What makes voices different is that we mix our industry with fascinating people from other sectors.
0:17.0	From the worlds of economics, activism, health and wellness, medicine, film, philanthropy,
0:23.1	technology, media, and so many more. Fashion doesn't live in a bubble and nor should it.
0:28.6	This is one of the sessions from our 2017 gathering. Earlier this year, the BOF team started talking
0:34.4	about the space of adaptive fashion. And it became my mission to find someone
0:39.9	who could speak on designing for disability at Voices 2017. One of our team members, Gemma Williams,
0:47.3	introduced me to Chenade Burke, an academic, writer, and advocate. As a little person
0:52.8	standing at only three foot five inches tall,
0:56.9	Chenade campaigns for greater accessibility in retail and a broader range of clothes through her
1:02.6	website using the moniker mini Melanch. Chenade gave one of the most powerful talks at Voices 2017,
1:10.6	and I'm absolutely delighted to share that talk with
1:13.4	you here because it's a talk we should all listen to. It gives you an entirely new perspective
1:18.4	on the challenges that disabled people face in everyday tasks related to our industry. So here's
1:25.5	Sheneid Burke at Voices 2017.
1:28.3	Just a quick note, this conversation was recorded live in front of an audience,
1:33.3	so please excuse any audio issues.
1:36.3	I'm an elementary or a primary school teacher,
1:41.3	and I was teaching four and five-year-olds.
1:45.0	It was my first day.
1:47.0	I was nervous.
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