The year that changed my life
Think of disability-friendly fashion and what usually comes to mind is clothes lacking any fit, form or style, like oversized tracksuits or hospital pyjamas. But on the runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane this year, each piece in Carol Taylor’s MeQ collection was hiding a little secret: they had all been designed for people with disabilities. Taylor, who has quadriplegia, heightened waistlines for those of us in wheelchairs, switched awkward buttons for concealed magnets and replaced fiddly zips with ones that could be done up easily by someone who finds such tasks difficult, as I
