NYFW 20-21 : Daisy-May Demetre walks Lulu et Gigi Couture show with prostheses
Since the beginning of her career in 2017, Daisy-May Demetre has, among other things, walked the Lulu and Gigi Couture runway and lent her image to a Nike campaign
The nine-year-old double amputee british girl Daisy-May Demetre keeps on her burgeoning modeling career, celebrating inclusion and diversity in fashion. Let’s have a look at her unusual journey.
By Ludmilla Intravaia
Daisy-May Demetre is proud of her achievements as “first child double amputee to walk New York Fashion Week”, as announced on her Instagram account, strong with 24.000 fans, following her daily adventures. Last February, it was on the podium of Lulu and Gigi Couture fashion show that the nine-year-old english girl was seen, walking with prostheses for the Fall-Winter 20-21 collection of the kids and teens brand.
Daisy-May Demetre wears two leg prostheses, following his amputation, at two years old, due to a fibular hemimelia, a malformation characterized by the partial or complete absence of the fibula, a bone constituting the lateral part of the skeleton of the leg. Watch her during the show, below.
Below, watch the full Lulu and Gigi Couture Fall-Winter 2020-2021 show on February 9, 2020 in New York. On its website, the brand declares : "Our garments are made to enhance each child’s uniqueness. Inclusion and diversity are fostered, celebrated and encouraged.”
In the fall of 2019, Daisy-May Demetre lent her talent to an internet campaign for the sports brand Nike.
In Paris, the little girl stepped on a catwalk installed at the top of the Eiffel Tower, on September 27, 2019, as ambassador of Lulu and Gigi Couture.
In New York, where diversity and inclusiveness are strongly encouraged on the catwalks by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), Daisy-May Demetre appeared on Lulu and Gigi Couture Spring-Summer 2020 show on September 9, 2019.
Watch her during the show below.
Daisy-May Demetre started her career, by joining the inclusive British agency Zebedee Management in the fall of 2017.
It is through this agency representing models with disabilities that Daisy-May Demetre won, in July 2018, a contract with River Island, a British brand that had also celebrated its 30th anniversary, six months earlier, with the "Labels are for clothes" campaign, aiming at diversity in fashion.
To find out more about Daisy-May Demetre, watch this reportage from June 28, 2018, below.
* Daisy-May Demetre's Instagram account is here. Lulu and Gigi Couture's website is here. Zebedee Management’s website is there.
* Continue reading on inclusive fashion tech with the following Boudoir Numérique papers :
- NYFW 2020 : inclusive fashion tech at Chromat show
- Fashion models with prosthetics at NYFW 2019