Closing out New York Fashion<\/a> Week, the Runway of Dreams Foundation<\/a> hosted its seventh annual show on Sept. 13 at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn. The show, aptly named A <\/em>Fashion<\/em><\/a> Revolution, <\/em>highlighted innovative work from big-name as well as up-and-coming brands that are making adaptive and universally designed fashion.<\/p>\n Former NFL linebacker Shaquem Griffin, the first football player with a limb difference, hosted the show, which featured over 70 models with varying disabilities and backgrounds.<\/p>\n Mindy Scheier, the founder of Runway of Dreams and creator of Gamut Talent Management, which represents people with disabilities, had spent 20 years working in the fashion industry before launching the foundation. Her son, Oliver, was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and one day he came home<\/a> from school and asked Scheier if he could get a pair of jeans.<\/p>\n Because of Oliver\u2019s fine motor skills and the lack of adaptive clothing available, Oliver was really only able to wear sweatpants. Scheier made him a pair of custom jeans, thanks to her background in fashion, but recognized a much larger issue. In 2014, she started Runway of Dreams.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople with disabilities are the largest minority on our planet that every single one of us could be a part of at any point in time,\u201d Scheier told In The Know by Yahoo. \u201cIt was thought that people with disabilities are a niche community, they don\u2019t want to spend money on clothing, etc. All of which was very incorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n