The debut pieces were created with input from women with diverse disability experiences.
Each one makes styles Anthropologie already sold even more accessible.
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Nashville-based lifestyle influencerApril Lockhartproudly identifies as a “fashion girlie.”
Lockhart was also born with a limb difference, and fully expressing herpersonal stylesometimes comes with compromises.
“Seeing myself in those spheres was always missing,” Lockhart tellsMarie Claire.
“I longed to see a disabled body like mine in ads and magazines.”
Anthropologie’s first clothing with adaptive features arrives online Wednesday, June 5.
Anthropologieisentering the adaptive fashion chatwith eight pieces created through a year-long process of research and product development.
Few retailers have pieces catered to all abilities that also take major trends and personal style into consideration.
April Lockhart, above, models an adaptive version of the best-sellingSomerset mini dress.
Take the Colette pant for example.
Just like the standard design, the adaptive version has a high-rise waist and a cropped flare hem.
But to make the pants more comfortable for wheelchair users, Anthropologie took a three-fold approach.
The disabled community loves fashion just like the rest of the fashion world.
Onepiece of design feedback from the disability community became the team’s design North Star, according to Srivastava.
Lockhart agrees that the designs strike a balance she hasn’t found in fashion before.
What this launchisn’tis a one-and-done release.
Still, it’s a start.
“[T]heyve committed to this just being step one,” Lockhart says.
“It doesnt have to be perfect to be progress.”
An inclusivity blueprint can manifest both in the products made and in the people wearing them, Scalesse notes.
“The disabled community loves fashion just like the rest of the fashion world.
Fashion girlies come in all shapes, sizes, and abilities.
They all deserve the same options when they’re getting dressed.
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