Making Fashion Accessible: A Global Vision

In May 2026, Hair & Care CIC featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Art exhibition in New York, for our work at London Fashion Week with designer Chet Lo. As one of the world's most important cultural institutions - welcoming nearly six million visitors a year - its recognition of our work marks a profound moment, not only for Hair & Care, but for the blind and low vision community at the core of our mission.

Hair & Care is a Hackney-based non-profit supporting the sight loss community through inclusive and accessible experiences. Through our Making Fashion Accessible (MFA) initiative, we partner with designers to create immersive, multi-sensory runway experiences for blind and low vision guests, through audio descriptions and tactile features - bringing a community historically excluded from fashion's most celebrated spaces into the heart of them. The Met recognition comes off the back of our most recent MFA season: a continued collaboration with Chet Lo, whose tactile signature knitwear and vibrant designs lend themselves well to powerful, sensory storytelling. This season also brought a landmark partnership with global audio brand Philips Sound, elevating the accessible experience for our guests through quality audio technology- and whose participation signalled a huge step in industry understanding and prioritisation of inclusion.

The Met feature - and everything that led to it - shows that what started as a grassroots mission is now resonating globally; signaling that accessibility in fashion is no longer a fringe conversation, but belongs to the world.