Victoria Jenkins: Empowering Disability Through Inclusive Fashion (S5:E7)

In this episode of ‘Fear Less, Do More’, host Gill Hunter talks with Victoria Jenkins, Fashion Designer and Founder of the adaptive fashion brand, ‘Unhidden’. Victoria shares her incredible journey into the fashion industry, the inspiration behind her brand, and barriers she’s had to overcome in convincing the industry to embrace inclusive design and the challenges she still faces. She highlights the need for better representation of disabled people in fashion and reveals how she is working to normalise inclusive design through her brand.

Highlights include:

• Victoria’s company ‘Unhidden’ which makes clothes disabled people feel good wearing, rather than just designing for the catwalk
  

• Innovation in fashion design after meeting a patient in hospital who couldn't dress how she wanted for work or at home due to her disability
  

• Overcoming skepticism and indifference from the fashion industry
  

• Now has a range in Primark, a major high street retailer
  

• Accessibility and inclusion are core to Victoria's design philosophy
  

• Advocate for hiring more people with disabilities in the fashion industry, and more inclusive designs
  

• Braving a TED talk to raise awareness about the need for adaptive fashion
  

• Goal of expanding the reach of her brand and designs to make fashion more accessible

Connect with Victoria Jenkins on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-jenkins-812b7027/

Find out more about ‘Unhidden’

https://unhiddenclothing.com/

Visit the Victoria Jenkins Website

https://victoriaannofficial.com/

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