Woman who has designed fashion for wheelchair users has won two awards in New York.

Lucy Jones, 23, was voted Womenswear Designer of the Year of Class 2015 at the New York Parsons School of Design's annual fashion benefit.

She also jointly won the Parsons and Kerings
Empowering Imagination contest. Ms Jones said the motivation for her designs came from
a conversation with her cousin, Jake, who has a condition which means half his body is paralysed.

He has hemiplegia and told his cousin about the daily struggle he goes through putting on his own clothes.
"I realised that we, in the fashion industry, need to create more accessible solutions in clothing," Ms Jones said.

Ms Jones has now made it her mission to raise
awareness on the issue of designing for disabilities. She is the first Welsh design student to attend Parsons School of Design, securing her place in 2011 after receiving an award for art excellence and a distinction in
fashion and textiles from Glamorgan University.
"I am thrilled to be named Designer of the Year. Having this accolade from a leading world-wide design school is amazing and I am hoping this will help further my career in design - I can't wait to see what the future holds," she said.

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