{"id":75853,"date":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/fashion-expert-stephanie-thomas-to-discuss-disability-and-fashion-dec-1-as-part-of-uri-honors-colloquium\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T00:00:00","slug":"fashion-expert-stephanie-thomas-to-discuss-disability-and-fashion-dec-1-as-part-of-uri-honors-colloquium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/fashion-expert-stephanie-thomas-to-discuss-disability-and-fashion-dec-1-as-part-of-uri-honors-colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion expert Stephanie Thomas to discuss \u2018Disability and Fashion\u2019 Dec. 1 as part of 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 25, 2020 – Stephanie Thomas,\u00a0 a disability fashion styling expert, tastemaker and keynote speaker will discuss \u2018Disabilities and Fashion\u2019, Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m., as part of the 2020 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium, \u201cChallenging Expectations: Disability in the 21st Century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guided by her Disability Fashion Styling System, Stephanie Thomas creates brands, footwear, and accessories for people with disabilities. For 26 years she’s researched clothing and retail trends exclusively for people with disabilities. She was honored by TED for her TEDx Talk. She was cited as one of the people who are breaking down barriers for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n

The link to the virtual 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium lecture, which is free and open to the public, can be found in the colloquium schedule<\/a> on the day of the event next to Thomas\u2019 name.<\/p>\n

She is committed to using fashion as a tool to increase employment opportunities for actors and influencers with disabilities.. Thomas also serves on the Board of Directors of No Limits Media, and she volunteers for Dress for Success. Thomas is expanding the conversation around fashion and beauty by partnering with non-disability related brands like Beautycon Media and the Paris-based innovative fashion and technology hub, Look Forward, to name a few. Prior to working as a disability fashion styling expert, she worked in television and radio for more than a decade as an on-air personality and professional voice actor. She has been and continues to be the trusted voice of brands like JetBlue, Macy\u2019s, Popeye\u2019s, Hardees, McDonald\u2019s, Elmer\u2019s Glue, Miller Beer, Geico and more.<\/p>\n

Today, Thomas uses her media experience to:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create looks as a Los Angeles-based stylist exclusively for actors and influencers with disabilities.<\/li>\n
  2. Host the new podcast Twenty-Six and Counting\u2026which refers to the number of years she\u2019s followed the adaptive fashion sector and focuses on current trends affecting the industry today.<\/li>\n
  3. Challenge negative perceptions of people with disabilities as a keynote\/panel speaker, cultural taste maker, and content creator.<\/li>\n
  4. Educates industry leaders that are interested in meeting the fashion and styling needs of people with disabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Gianna Cardarelli, a 溏心vlog免费B站 Public Relations major and intern in its Department of Marketing and Communications, wrote this press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 25, 2020 – Stephanie Thomas,\u00a0 a disability fashion styling expert, tastemaker and keynote speaker will discuss \u2018Disabilities and Fashion\u2019, Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m., as part of the 2020 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium, \u201cChallenging Expectations: Disability in the 21st Century.\u201d Guided by her Disability Fashion Styling System, Stephanie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}