Making Fashion Accessible

Making Fashion Accessible (MFA) is Hair & Care’s internationally recognised initiative opening up Fashion Week to blind and low vision audiences. Working in collaboration with leading designers, we transform the traditional runway experience through live audio description, tactile design and sensory storytelling – building empowerment and connection whilst challenging the status quo.

Chet Lo x Hair & Care, AW26 at London Fashion Week

Erdem x Hair & Care, SS26 at London Fashion Week

Roksanda x Hair & Care, SS26 at London Fashion Week

  • Fashion is one of the most visual industries in the world – built on creativity, identity and self-expression – yet it remains largely inaccessible for blind and low vision people.

    Through MFA, we challenge an assumption that people with sight loss aren't interested in fashion and visual creativity – working to improve both access and representation within the industry, starting at Fashion Week.

    Inclusion in these spaces builds confidence, empowerment and connection – and the impact ripples far beyond the guests who join. Through the MFA process, designers are prompted to think more deeply about how their work is experienced beyond the visual, and who they consider when they design, helping to embed inclusion from the start.

    By working directly with designers, production teams and brands, we’re demonstrating what becomes possible when accessibility is considered as part of the creative process.

    At Hair & Care, we believe making spaces like this accessible should be standard, not a rarity.

  • Our approach is inclusive and sensory-led.

    Before the show, guests are introduced to the designer’s vision, inspiration and key elements of the collection, alongside tactile fabric swatches. During the show, audio descriptions are listened to in real time as models walk the runway, detailing textures, colours and silhouettes. The immersive experience is extended through touch tours, giving guests the opportunity to explore key garments first-hand through touch and sound.

  • Since launching our Making Fashion Accessible initiative, Hair & Care has collaborated with some of fashion’s most exciting designers to create accessible runway experiences for blind and low vision guests.

    Our work has taken us from London to Copenhagen Fashion Week, supported the first blind model to walk the runway in Copenhagen, and brought conversations around accessible fashion to international audiences. Accessibility doesn’t limit creativity – it enhances it.

    Enquiries: studio@hairandcareproject.com

A Touch Tour takes place before a London Fashion Week show. A seated group of blind and low vision women from our Hair & Care community are introduced to swatch samples and clothing items in a bright room with large windows and exposed brick walls.
Two women wearing headphones lean in together to examine a booklet featuring fabric samples
A group of female models stand together backstage before a runway show, by large windows with green trees outside.
Close-up of a woman's hand feeling a dark embroidered garment, with the designer name 'S.S Daley' stitched in red.
Designer S.S Daley holding up a garment with a white and green floral pattern for a blind guest to feel with their hands.
Four women sitting on chairs against a white wall, engaged in conversation, with two guide dogs on the floor nearby.
Close-up of a person's hand holding a fringed fabric or garment with white and light green pattern, with other people in the blurred background.
Nine women in stylish attire stand together smiling inside a dimly lit ballroo, with two guide dogs in front.
Two models walk an outside runway; one of them is blind, led by her guide dog, on a weaving garden path. An audience is sat watching on the left of the path.
A model walks on a runway wearing a green spiky knitted dress and carries a green spiky parasol, surrounded by an audience in a luxurious, ornate room.
Designer Chet Lo holds out a garment for three women to feel the texture of, while he talks about the design.
Five women stand together with designer Chet Lo at his studio, one holding a white cane, with a clothing rack in the background
A close-up of a person's hands examining a red spiky knitted dress, hung on a rail beside a similarly spiky black garment
Four guests sitting on a bench in the British Museum courtyard, smiling at the camera with green trees in the background.
A woman standing and speaking to a group of four seated women in a room with large windows, brick wall, and clothing racks on the left.
Blind guests stand around Chet Lo as he holds a green spiky garment for them to feel the texture.

  • ‘We got to meet the most incredible people and it made me so happy to see the enthusiasm they had for fashion and the collections. It was lots of fun!’

    — Chet Lo, Designer

  • '“Partnering with Hair & Care shows how inclusion and care can sit naturally alongside design - creating thoughtful, accessible and richer experiences where everyone feels valued'.

    —Amat Hildebrand, Head of Customer Experience - Philips Sound (TP Vision)

  • ‘Working with Hair & Care has been an amazing opportunity to learn about accessibility for blind and low vision people, how to bring our brand to that community and to think about ideas that bring the sensations together to create a multi-sensory world.’

    —SINÉAD O’DWYER

  • 'By focusing on sensory engagement, guests can enjoy the music, the rustle of clothes, and the energy of the crowd while also getting a hands-on feel for the fabrics. Hair & Care's unique approach is a fantastic and much-needed concept.’

    — Philip De Mesquita, Ex CEO - Roksanda

  • ‘Hair & Care is shaping the future – inspiring designers to not just include us, but to actively help us engage with fashion. For the next generation, those wanting to sketch out their identity and step into creative industries, Hair & Care is paving the way.’

    — Jane Manley, DeafBlind Research Analyst - RNIB - and MFA guest

  • "What mainstream fashion can learn from Hair & Care is that accessibility is entirely possible. People often see inclusion as hard work, but in reality, it enhances creativity for everyone - not just those with disabilities, but also the creatives learning to make their work more accessible."

    — Catrin Pugh, VI Model, Advocate and Speaker, and MFA guest

Chet Lo logo in black slanted font
Silver metallic text in a stylized, distorted font against a black background.
Erdem logo in capitalised black font
Logo for the V&A; the letters are in a stylised black font, positioned close together
Logo of Philips Sound; Philips is written in capital letters, in blue.
A black and white image with the text "SINÉAD O'DWYER" in bold, uppercase letters.
Logo for Purple PR agency in black capitalised font.
Logo for London Fashion Week with bold black text.
Logo for Marie Claire, in black bold font
Roksanda Logo, written in a thin capitalised font
Logo for BBC; written in white capitalised font, each letter sits inside a black box, side by side.
S.S. Daley logo in black capitalised writing.
Logo for SONOS in black capitalised letters
Logo for Hypebae, written in large black letters