Event

What if Disabled people designed fashion systems?

Continuing our series, “What if Disabled people designed the world?”, our next webinar looks at fashion systems.

Event Details

30 September 2026

10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm GMT

Online via Zoom

Laia is a consultant working at Tilting the Lens. She is a white cisgender woman with straight, dark brown hair styled in a sleek side part. Laia is wearing a black blazer over a high-necked, draped grey dress. Her expression is warm and she smiles with closed lips. She sits in a patterned armchair, her legs crossed and her hands resting in her lap. In the background, there is a small round table with a pile of books and a potted plant. — Laia Cargol Martinez

A black woman with beautiful black curls, wearing deep red lipstick with a dark outline, dark eyeshadow and a black high-neck top, positioned against a deep red backdrop. — Roxanne Murray

A white woman with auburn hair and an eyebrow piercing, wearing a silvery grey dress with a cross-body design at the top, a long pleated skirt and a silver belt reading “sinéad”, standing against a blue, hazy background. — Sinéad O'Dwyer

A white woman, who is a Little Person with a form of Dwarfism, stands against a white background. She has wavy brown hair and wears a cream vest decorated with illustrations, including a horse, tap shoes, a pigeon with a letter, a clover, a piece of cake, a ladybird, dice, and a mermaid. She also wears silver rings on her fingers. — Caity Briare

Join us for a lively, open conversation with three Disabled creatives, leaders, and accessibility advocates from across the fashion system to explore how we can co-design better systems and solutions.

This webinar is for everyone, whether you are an industry professional, a student, a researcher, an advocate, a customer, or simply curious about how accessibility and design can drive meaningful change.

Laia Cargol Martinez, Product Design Consultant and Research Hub Lead at Tilting the Lens, will host this session. She brings two years of community-led co-design experience focused on creating accessible fashion solutions to this conversation.

The discussion will feature a panel of Disabled people and they will share their professional experiences across the fashion industry, emphasising the importance of co-design in developing meaningful, accessible solutions over the long term.

This conversation builds on some of our recent projects. This includes the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Adaptive Design Challenge, the Parsons Disabled Fashion Student Program, ‘Costume Art’, the 2026 Costume Institute Exhibition at The Met, and, of course, our free white paper and research on co-designing adaptive fashion with the Disabled community.

For accessibility, this session will have on-screen British Sign Language (BSL) and American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters, alongside AI captioning. Following the event, all registrants will receive a transcript and video recording via email. If any further accessibility accommodations would support your participation, please email us at accessibility@tiltingthelens.com.

Please note that by registering for this webinar, you will receive reminder emails from us about the event, as well as post-event emails with the recording.

Meet the Speakers

Laia Cargol Martinez (she/her)

Product Design Consultant and Research Hub Lead at Tilting the Lens.

Laia Cargol Martinez is the Product Design Lead Consultant at Tilting the Lens. Her work focuses on inclusive research methods and co-design strategies that prioritise the lived experiences of Disabled people while balancing practical business constraints like budgets, timelines, and technology. She also manages the Tilting the Lens Research Hub, turning community insights into actionable product solutions. Over the past three years, she has led digital accessibility strategies and product based solutions to help global brands across finance, advertising, and fashion to create more accessible solutions.

Roxanne Murray (she/they)

Roxanne Murray is an internationally recognised advocate for disability rights, adaptive fashion, and radical inclusivity, living boldly with Multiple Sclerosis. A member of the BBC 100 Women list and the Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100, she was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her work in fashion and disability. Roxanne is the host of The Sick and Sickening Podcast, where she shares unfiltered stories on navigating disability and chronic illness. Drawing on her background as a stylist, she consults on art direction and adaptive fashion, and helps individuals with disabilities embrace stylish mobility aids and clothing as tools of self-empowerment. Her work has been featured in Refinery29 and beyond for its impact on diversity and inclusion.

She speaks widely on multiple sclerosis, neurodiversity, body positivity, sexual health, workplace allyship and self-empowerment, championing a future where radical inclusivity in fashion, tv and film is the norm.

Sinéad O’Dwyer (she/her)

Sinéad O’Dwyer is a London-based womenswear brand, founded in 2021 by Irish designer Sinéad O’Dwyer. Sinéad O’Dwyer offers intentionally designed luxury garments for women and gender non-conforming femmes of all shapes and sizes. Diverse bodies are central to the design process, from research and development to the final product. Craftsmanship, innovation and sustainability are core values of the brand. Aesthetically characterised by a tension between a soft sensuality and an imposing toughness, the brand’s narratives are emotionally driven and personal. These stories are given further depth through projects that communicate the relationship to their community and models.

Sinéad O’Dwyer has been showing at London Fashion Week as a recipient of the British Fashion Council’s Newgen since 2022 and was a 2023 British Fashion Council Foundation Award Nominee. The brand won the 2024 Zalando Visionary Award and last year was a 2025 LVMH Award Semi-Finalist. Sinéad was also first included on the BOF 500 list last year. In November 2025 the brand created a performance at the Barbican Theatre in London in collaboration with choreographer Grace Nicol. The current Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, Costume Art, includes two looks from Sinéad O’Dwyer, that were both acquired as part of the museum’s permanent collection. The brand’s most recent collection was just shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the fashion in Motion series in July 2026. The V&A have also just acquired a look from the brand for their permanent collection. The brand has dressed models Alva Claire, Paloma Elsesser, Precious Lee, Lara Stone and Tess McMillan, musicians Jorja Smith, Eartheater, CMAT, Kelsey-Lu, Arca, Yseult and Beth Ditto and actress and comedian Meg Stalter, among others. The brand has been featured extensively across Vogue, British Vogue, Business of Fashion, i-D, Dazed, Another, Elle, Vogue Business, The Face, Perfect Magazine and WWD.

Caity Briare (she/her)

Caity Briare is a New York-based artist and designer originally from Portland. Having launched her brand, Ca8ty, in 2020, Briare approaches clothing as wearable art, infusing each piece with whimsy, humour, and narrative depth. She has developed a distinctive visual language of intricate appliqué and free-motion embroidery, which echoes her early foundations in illustration and painting.

Caity holds an MFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design (2026) and a BA in Communication and Fine Arts from the University of Portland (2022).

Alongside her studio work, Caity has cultivated a digital presence as a fashion creator, sharing her upcycled garments and artistic process. She has participated in a number of fashion collaborations, including designing accessories for KidSuper’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, KEEN footwear upcycling, and partnering with Fashion Brand Company in 2023 to reproduce one of her signature designs. Committed to inclusivity and sustainability, Caity has been recognised by UNIA magazine and Sustainable Baddie for her environmentally conscious approach to design.

Caity continues to explore new artistic mediums, allowing her interests in art and design to intertwine. She envisions her brand as an ever-expanding creative studio focused on sustainability and inclusivity. She aspires to become a creative director at an established, forward-thinking fashion house.

Co-designing adaptive fashion with the Disabled community

The first Tilting the Lens white paper examines a significant untapped market opportunity. It offers a data-driven, open-source playbook for brands to drive innovation and build trust with Disabled consumer market. The report is available now and free to download.

Download the report