Adaptive Fashion: Knitwear Project for People with Special Needs

The paper investigates a fashion sector which is unexplored and ignored: Adaptive Fashion. The aim of this design is to answer to this new group of consumers creating functional and trendy garments for them. Firstly, the paper analyzes what the Adaptive Fashion was and its transformation through the years. The Adaptive Clothing companies haven’t thought about a functional, creative design that follows the fashion trends and the innovations. After it shows that an accurate research was done on the physical structure of disabled people and their different requests: it studied their anthropometry and thought about a correct design process for the creation of a knitwear collection for wheelchairwomen. It is inspired by Milan, which won the Access City Awards 2016 prize. The collection is made of Wool and Cotton because these fibers were identified as the best natural ones for this project after a lot of scientific investigations.