Designers of the future will have better knowledge about fashion design, if, like students at Edinburgh College of Art, they have worked with ordinary women during their training.
I’m delighted that this is something All Walks (the initiative I co-founded) has helped to instigate as a result of a sustained appeal to educationalists to [...]

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There is a growing change as the fashion industry embraces bodies that are womanly and aspirational…after the two aren’t mutually exclusive.
And when I saw this picture of Tanya Gervasi, modelling in the Rome couture shows for Gattinoni, I just had to share it.
THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT! Of course as designers fit each garment in [...]

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Designers do need to include curvy women in their design thinking. And working on ordinary bodies instead of tailors’ dummies or a model who is paid to mimic a tailors’ dummy in size is not a rounded training say we at All Walks!
Yesterday after months of hard work to create Britain’s first Centre of Diversity,  [...]

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Well as we gear up for our launch of Britain’s first ever Centre of Diversity, I’m feeling very pleased with our achievements at All Walks Beyond the Catwalk. Govt. Minister Lynne Featherstone, pictured here in the middle of the picture has been a constant supporter of our work. This picture was taken at the [...]

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I know how strongly you feel about seeing women who represent a range of beauty in your fashion media, young, old, slender and curvaceous because you’ve all been telling me on twitter. All Walks the campaign I co founded does just that and yesterday I attended a landmark event at Westminster, which I’m gagging to [...]

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