![]() The study's findings have contributions to the Social Model of Disability, MRCS, R-A, and GSCM theory and implications for apparel brands and entrepreneurs wishing to enter the adaptive apparel market as well as for policymakers, and apparel researchers. ![]() The study also found that Scheier sacrificed her career goals, her income, and her dignity to ensure adaptive apparel went mainstream in the apparel industry. By Nicky Miller In this episode of Kessler Foundations podcast, Nicky Miller, spoke with Mindy Scheier about the fashion industry, inclusion, accessibility and adaptive clothing for people with disabilities. One day, her 8-year old who has a rare form of muscular. Mindy is the pioneer of the adaptive fashion industry. She talks about why she started the non-profit and what adaptive. As part of my interview series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mindy Scheier. Runway of Dreams Founder and CEO Mindy Scheier said her son lives with Muscular Dystrophy and dreamed of wearing jeans like everyone else. This knowledge led to a collaboration with a supply chain partner, which led to the first-of-its-kind mainstream fashion-forward adaptive apparel line with Tommy Hilfiger(R). Care+Wear has exclusively interviewed Mindy Scheier, Founder and CEO of Runway of Dreams. This motivation led Scheier to engage in an in-depth consumer market and design innovation research to gain knowledge of the apparel needs and challenges of PLWD. With a 20-year background in fashion design, Mindy Scheier was determined to research modifications and adapt them for clothing that accommodates people with disabilities, like her son, who may have difficulty dressing. The study found that Scheier was motivated to become an advocate for the adaptive apparel market by the apparel needs and challenges of her son. A single, main case study design was used to examine the phenomenon. The recent interest of apparel brands to embrace the PLWD consumer suggests a possible shift in the apparel industry toward an inclusive approach to fashion. The purpose of this study is to gain an in-depth, holistic, and contextualized understanding of how Mindy Scheier catalyzed the adaptive apparel market by exploring her role as an adaptive apparel advocate and her collaboration with Tommy Hilfiger(R), to launch a first-of-its-kind adaptive apparel line, Tommy Adaptive. Mindy Scheier has made sure fashion has immeasurable potential by adapting stylish clothing for people with disabilities. It wasnt until 2013, when her 8-year-old son, Oliver, came home from school and asked to wear jeans, that Mindy Scheier realized the importance of.
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