OUR MOST INSPIRING WOMEN
Catwalk queen
When Carol Taylor was invited to design a fashion range for people with disabilities she worried she’d taken on too much. Along with juggling life as a doting mum and running her own law firm, she certainly had plenty on her plate.
Yet the glamorous 52-year-old from the Gold Coast knows more than most the desperate need for a stylish clothing line for people with disabilities.
She’s no stranger to a challenge, after enduring years of agonising rehabilitation following a horrific car accident 18 years ago that severed her spinal cord, leaving her a quadriplegic. “Some would argue people with a disability have more important things to worry about than fashion,” says Carol, who could never accept what she considered “regulation disability attire” of tracksuits and sneakers and longed to wear stilettos again.
“I think fashion affects our core sense of identity, our confidence, and it impacts the way the outside world perceives and treats us,” she says.
So Carol embarked on a mission to devise a world-first range of adaptive ball gowns and kaftans, and included design techniques such as well-placed
