Fashion United
Nottingham Trent University student creates wheelchair user-friendly fashion range. Fashion knitwear design student Gemma Tyte from Nottingham Trent University has created a fashion range supporting people in wheelchairs and people with cerebral palsy.
BBC Radio Devon - David Fitzgerald
Gemma appeared as a guest on David Fitzgerald's morning show on BBC Radio Devon. Tune in from about 1h30m.
Disability Insider
University student’s own experience with disability inspired an inclusive clothing collection. Gemma Tyte’s own experience of living with cerebral palsy is what drives her to demand inclusive designs from the more popular fashion houses.
BBC Radio Devon - Pippa Quelch
Gemma from Axminster is a BA Fashion Knitwear Design student at Nottingham Trent Uni. There’s more clothing lines for dogs than people with disabilities.
Posability Magazine
Fashion student with CP designs inclusive collection. Gemma Tyte is 22 and studying Fashion Knitwear Design at Nottingham Trent University. She lives with mild cerebral palsy and believes that today’s high street brands need to “think outside the box” when it comes to offering inclusive fashion.
Independent Living
Inclusive fashion collection launched. A fashion knitwear student with mild cerebral palsy has designed an inclusive collection to support wheelchair users and other people with disabilities.
Nottingam Trent University
Fashion range to support wheelchair users and others with cerebral palsy. A fashion knitwear student with mild cerebral palsy has designed an inclusive collection to support wheelchair users and other people with disabilities.
Capital Midlands News (Twitter)
"There are more clothing options for dogs!" Fashion graduate Gemma Tyte, who has mild cerebral palsy, says she's worked on a range of knitwear for people with disabilities because she's struggled to find things people actually want to wear.
University Showcase
BA (Hons) Fashion Knitwear Design & Knitted Textiles
British Fashion Council
Inclusivity in the fashion industry is an issue that needs addressing. Adapted fashion does not have to be monotone and boring, it can be expressive and functional. I am designing clothing for physically disabled, showing a variety of ways clothing can be adapted. The collection is inspired by the beauty of Bermuda and the garments are inclusively designed. Inclusive fashion is the future of design and I aim to show brands that being inclusive is possible.
Graduate Fashion Week
Gemma's personal experience of having a disability has directly infulenced and inspired her collection. Using fashion to spread awarness of disability in design she has shown that adapted fashion can be colourful and fun aswell as functional.
Devon Live News
Devon student designing clothing to help disabled people 'express themselves'. Gemma Tyte is using her own experience of cerebral palsy to encourage high street brands to be more inclusive in terms of what is on offer