'As a disabled woman, I felt excluded from the fashion conversation despite it being a tool that exonerated me from much of the vulnerability of having to explain to the world who I was.' —thesineadburke
Author:Whitney BauckUpdated:Jan 8, 2020Original:Jan 8, 2020In our long-running series "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion and beauty industries about how they broke in and found success.
Burke got her first big break in the industry giving a TED Talk about accessible design from her perspective as a little person. Since then, her advocacy has led to collaborations with brands like Burberry and Ferragamo on accessible design initiatives, an invite to the Met Gala and the aforementioned cover
When she's not in closed-door meetings with bigwig CEOs, Burke is working on her PhD in education and hosting her podcast, 'As Me with Sinéad,' where she interviews people like Victoria Beckham, DeRay McKesson and Adwoa Aboah about vulnerability and empathy. Turns out there have been a lot of big moments since then. How has it felt to be the first little person on the cover of Vogue or at the Met Gala?
I think there's very few people who don't understand the currency of the fashion industry. There are very few people who don't know what Chanel or Gucci or Dior are, even if most of us can't afford them. But that aspirational branding and marketing has power. So what does it mean when fashion brands step up for the disabled community? I'm working in collaboration with them to make a difference. I genuinely believe other industries will follow.
That's such a great example of you using your platform to not just get a big brand to dress you — which feels in some ways like a victory on its own — but to actually spread those benefits to other people who don't have your platform or visibility. Where else are you seeing that happen? Fashion is an industry that's always been slow to change. It was one of the last industries on the internet and to use social media. But if fashion decides to make changes and tries to implement them tomorrow, that change will probably be targeted for publicity rather than actually creating something that's really embedded within the system.
What I need on the jacket I just bought is for the sleeve to be altered. I may be able to bring that to a seamstress, but what if that was part of the actual purchasing process? This needs to be part of the mainstream proposal. It needs to be an embedded principle within the design and purchasing and sales model, rather than isolating it as a specific collection.
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