New York Fashion Week Debuts “Double Take” Adaptive Fashions

This September had each of us doing our own double-takes at the Double Take fashion show hosted by Aritzia, the biotechnology company Genentech, Open Style Lab (OSL) and the spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) community. This first-of-its-kind fashion show featured members of the community looking sharp as they modeled adaptive clothing designs created for them by OSL fellows. With models including Shane and Hannah Burcaw, a husband-and-wife social influencer duo, singer and coder Tabi Haly, and fashion entrepreneur Laura Watson, Double Take’s point is to not only showcase stylish, functional, adaptive clothing but to also create a new and more inclusive fashion industry. Read more.