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Blindness and Fashion: Teaching Personal Stylists and Image Consultants to Work with Visually Impaired People

Authors
Tatiana Belova1, *
1Russian State Specialized Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
*Corresponding author. Email: beltatiana11@gmail.com
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Tatiana Belova
Available Online 14 November 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-02-2_4How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Fashion; Blindness; Blind; Visually impaired; Stylist; Inclusion; Image consultant
Abstract

This study is devoted to the issues of accessibility of fashion for people with visual impairments. We discuss the experience of teaching personal stylists to work and interact with visually impaired people within the “Blind Fashion” project. The project was aimed at helping the blind participants select the appropriate clothes and look attractive. The article investigates the existing problems and possible solutions, explains the major differences in consulting blind and sighted people and what to consider when working with this category of clients. The study is practical and is based on interview excerpts and real insights shared by blind participants and stylists of our project. The research may be useful for personal stylists, fashion experts, image consultants, psychologists and all the people who are interested in the issues of fashion, image consulting and inclusion.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education: Current Issues and Digital Technologies (ICECIDT 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
14 November 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-02-2_4
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-02-2_4How to use a DOI?
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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