Disabled Models

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Angelica and Matilde Aureli, twin models with albinism

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Shaholly Ayers, a congenital amputee

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Sinéad Burke: ‘Disabled People Should Be Able To Thrive In Fashion’

Activist, CEO and fashion power player, Sinéad Burke, shares her manifesto for change within the industry. Read more on Grazia.

The British Fashion Council (BFC) published its first DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) Census of the UK fashion industry last month. The BFC promotes British fashion and supports the sector to export, grow and, by its own definition, innovate. The data showed that of the 1,529 survey participants, only 6% identified as disabled, with 94% identifying as non-disabled, or at least, not disabled right now. It’s a statistic that is out of sync with the UK population, which has 16 million disabled people; one in every six. So, why is fashion so under-populated with disabled people? Or do they not feel safe, comfortable or supported to acknowledge their disability?

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Nyle DiMarco, a deaf model

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Hendra Raud, model with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)

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Lauren Rose, a paraplegic model, for Selkie's Fall 2025 collection, Libertine

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Aimee Mullins, an amputee born with fibular hemimelia, by Nick Knight for the Alexander McQueen guest-edited issue of Dazed & Confused

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Shaholly Ayers, a congenital amputee

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Yvie Oddly (she/they/he), a model and drag queen with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS), for Them

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Lyric Mariah Heard, an amputee with amniotic band syndrome (ABS), behind the scenes for Dreaming Eli

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Terence Munzemba, a model with vitiligo

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Lauren Wasser, an amputee and survivor of toxic shock syndrome (TSS)

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Emily Barker (they/them), a model with paraplegia and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), for Otherness Magazine

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Xueli Abbing, a model with albinism, photographed by Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk

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Nina Marker, an autistic model, V Magazine

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Tamera McLaughlin, a model with achondroplasia dwarfism, for Savage X Fenty

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Ellie Goldstein, a model with Down Syndrome, for Vogue