Kornit Digital is continuing its commitment to rewriting the rules for fashion and textiles by empowering designers to share their unique real-life perspectives to create collections that support diversity and ensure inclusion.

Craig Crawford, founder of Differently Enabled, created a vision for fashion that included the excluded. In collaboration with Kornit digital customer Rialto Designs Limited, he brought to life designs for those living with disability that don’t have typical body morphology or range of motion. The technology enabled the production of colourful, comfortable one-offs, short and long runs, on natural fabrics.

Yes and No - The Sharon Riders Association used Kornit Digital solutions to create Braille t-shirts for the association's visually impaired bikers. The sustainable shirts were custom made with the group's name in Braille and a tactile map of Israel which marked the cycling routes the group has travelled.  

Kornit Digital’s production versatility played a key role in Israel’s Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games delegation’s uniform. The collection was created by Palta, a company specializing in inclusive accessible fashion solutions. Founder Shay Senior was injured during his military service and after assessing the lack of quality apparel geared to his community, he started creating different mechanisms and tools to help him with his daily needs. The uniform was printed using DTG technology, with natural, water-based, non-toxic inks, supporting athletes’ sensory needs.

Palta isn’t just focused on creating clothes for people with disabilities. It also aims to make fashion that’s better andinteresting for everyone. As such it has just held its first course on inclusive design where it developed a point-by-point solution for the end user that is also suitable for the entire population. The focus was on body movements and postures that should be considered when designing clothes for people with disabilities. Kornit Digital printed the designs created by five students from the WIZO Haifa Academic Center.

Kornit Digital also helped a number of designers showcase collections inspired by their personal journeys at the recent Kornit Digital Fashion Week Tel Aviv. Chana Marelus channelled her Orthodox Jewish upbringing in her “Haredi-chic” collection that celebrate w https://pixeltoparcel.com/a-closer-look-at-inclusive-fashion-with-palta-and-the-wizo-haifa-academy-of-design/ omen who follow societal fashion rules of modesty. It featured printed fine details and soft colour transitions on silk fabrics. David Weksler‘s sustainable, genderless clothing line included streetwear, clubwear, andgaywear creations exploring new ways of upcycling textiles while Yanky & Nataf’s bright, bold designs on non-conventional materials such as mesh fabrics decorated with stones, leather, imitation leather, and polyesters of various types, showcased a dress that pregnant Nataf could feel comfortable and beautiful wearing. 

Prepared on the basis of information from Kornit Digital