The Fashion World may finally embrace Disabled Models
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The disabled models competing in Britain’s Missing Top Model - credit: Daily Mail
The world of modeling and high fashion has been closed to disabled and handicapped women in the past, but that all may be changing now, thanks to a new reality show on the BBC, which may encourage the fashion industry to adopt a more enlightened view of the handicapped.
The show is Britain’s Missing Top Model, and according to the UK’s Daily Mail, it involves eight women with differing disabilities competing, “to prove to a panel of industry experts that they have what it takes to be a mainstream model.”
In the past, in the minds of fashion executives, the concept of the ideal women, precluded using the disabled as models. Those like Debbie Van der Putten, a vivacious young beauty and contestant on the show, who lost her arm in a bus accident, were shunned aside and prevented from pursuing a career in the fashion industry.
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Handicapped Model Debbie Van der Putte - credit: Daily Mail
We at The Fashion Time, feel that the world of fashion has been a too exclusive, segregated club in the past, and needs for the future, to embrace a more holistic concept of beauty, one that is found in models of all sizes, shapes, and colors.
Britain’s Missing Top Model, part of BBC 3’s Beauty Season, starts on Tuesday, July 1 at 9pm.