Blind models locomotion Oak Brook runway celebrating manner and feeling
At a manner amusement successful Oak Brook, Illinois, the models don't request decorator looks to amusement disconnected their style. For them, manner is astir feeling.
"Intrinsically, I person the knack for manner and I did not suffer that erstwhile I mislaid my sight," said Monty Rogers.
Rogers and Takela Allen are already exemplary students astatine the Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education, but Sunday they walked their archetypal runway. They're among 10 models who are unsighted oregon visually impaired who paired up with a stylist astatine a adjacent Nordstrom to find the cleanable acceptable based connected feeling.
The accidental was made imaginable by a nonprofit jewelry store, CD Peacock, and a gem of an idea.
Aria Holtzman, 16, teamed up with Bryce Weiler from the Beautiful Lives Project, a nonprofit that make events for radical with disabilities, to make this manner show.
"Starting a manner amusement was ever thing that I wanted to do," Weiler said.
After weeks of planning, it was showtime and the models didn't request to spot their apparel to cognize they looked arsenic bully arsenic they felt.
CD Peacock covered the outgo of the outfits for the models, and each of them went location with marque caller apparel from Nordstrom.