第3111期:Adaptive fashion products

Welsh born designer Lucy Jones says she's been interested in fashion since she was a child, starting when her parents gave her a sewing machine.威尔士出生的设计师露西·琼斯表示她从小就对时尚感兴趣，这始于父母送给她一台缝纫机的时候。When I was 19 years old, I was really feisty, fiery, brave. I thought moving all the way to New York from Wales, where there are more sheep than people.当我十九岁的时候，我真的很活泼、充满热情、非常勇敢。我想从威尔士一路搬到纽约，在威尔士，那里羊的数量甚至比人多。I wanted to be the next big designer that was gonna have these glamorous runway shows.我想成为下一个能举办这些迷人时装秀的大设计师。I was never thinking about disability. I was never thinking about, you know, underserved people. And then something changed.我从来没有考虑过残疾人群。从来没有考虑过底层人群的需求。但是事情发生了转机。With most of the fashion industry serving the average healthy person, Jones didn't want to become just one of many. She wanted to be special.由于大多数时尚业都是为普通健康人服务的，琼斯不想成为众多时尚产业中的一员。她想要与众不同。I started talking with a family member who has cerebral palsy.我开始和一位患有脑瘫的家庭成员交流我的想法。And he said wouldn't it be great if things were more accessible, you know, doing up a pair of shoes independently and things I had never thought about.他说，如果能让残疾人群的生活变得更加容易就好了， 比如独立系鞋带之类的，这些都是我从未想过的。So Jones began to think about how a fashion designer can make the lives of disabled people easier and more beautiful.于是琼斯开始思考，时装设计师如何能够让残疾人的生活变得更轻松、更美丽。She raised this question with people she knew or found through social media, one of them Brianna Scalesse who models Jones's clothes, recalls the first time she saw the product.她向认识的人或在社交媒体上找到的人提出了这个问题，其中一位是为琼斯的衣服做模特的布里安娜·斯卡利西，她回忆起第一次看到这款产品时的情景。We were in a cafe and we were sitting down, and she just like pulled the product out of a bag to show me.我们在一家咖啡馆里坐下来，她从袋子里拿出这款产品给我看，And it was emotional for me, because I've been so used to growing up and being a person with a disability, kind of being ignored by the world and by fashion.我特别激动，因为我已经习惯了作为一个残疾人的生活， 我们经常会被世界和时尚界所忽视。The release of her first collection in 2015, coincided with the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.其产品的第一个系列于2015年发布， 恰逢美国残疾人法案颁布二十五周年。And her work was noticed. Jones started with accessories that she presented at a special event.其产品引起了人们的关注。琼斯从她在一场特别活动中展示的配饰开始做起。A challenge many wheelchair-bound people face is, there is nowhere to put a hot drink as they wheel. So she designed a special cup holder and a purse holder.许多坐轮椅的人面临的一个挑战是，他们在推动轮椅时无处放置热饮。。所以她设计了一个特殊的杯架和一个皮包架。Just regular purses, you know, like trying to like just throw it over your shoulder, and every time I'm rolling, it's just falling down,like into my chair.如果是普通的皮包，我们一般会这样搭在肩膀上，可每次我滑动轮椅，它就会掉到轮椅上。And after that event, a number of people from the audience, ambassadors just said, I want to invest. Her products quickly became a huge success.在那次活动之后， 许多观众和代表都纷纷表示想要投资。她的产品很快就大获成功。