The Fashion Industry and the Purple Pound Today is Purple Tuesday which is recognised globally as an opportunity to raise awareness about the customer experience for people with disabilities. Celebrated annually on the first Tuesday of November, Purple Tuesday highlights the need for greater inclusion and accessibility. In Hull where I live, the Minster and other buildings will have been illuminated in purple from around 4 pm. Below, I take a look at the fashion industry thro

Creating transformEd styling is the culmination of my own transformational journey. But what's my story? Born in Hertfordshire, I lived there until moving to university in Wales - not to study Welsh but Swedish! Rural West Wales became my home for another 9 years – interspersed with a couple of study years in Sweden. Becoming a lecturer in Scandinavian Studies brought me to Hull. Almost 25 years later, I'm still in East Yorkshire where I live with my husband, my younger so