article_snippet: Models in wheelchairs, a blind lady and female amputees took to the catwalk at Tokyo fashion week on Wednesday as the Japanese capital became the latest to embrace diversity on the runway.
article_snippet: Disabled models, including one in a wheelchair, took to the catwalk at Tokyo fashion week on Wednesday .
article_snippet: This isn't the first designer to use disabled models on the catwalk.
article_snippet: the first designer to use disabled models on the catwalk strives to create clothes with handicapped people in mind and called on Paralympic athletes and ladies with prosthetic limbs to showcase the first designer to use disabled models on the catwalk designs .
article_snippet: London-based Models of Diversity, an agency that campaigns for greater diversity of modelling talent in the media and on the catwalk, was also involved.
article_snippet: It comes after American Horror Story actress Jamie Brewer became the first woman with Down syndrome to walk the runway last Thursday, as American Horror Story actress Jamie Brewer strutted the catwalk in Carrie Hammer’s show.
article_snippet: British personal trainer Jack Eyers became the first male amputee model to strut British personal trainer Jack Eyers stuff on the catwalk in Carrie Hammer’s show in the fashion show.
article_snippet: Make-up artists work on disabled model Ami Sano as Ami Sano sits in Ami Sano electric wheelchair .
article_snippet: This isn't the first designer to use disabled models on the catwalk in Carrie Hammer’s show and there were plenty on the catwalks in Milan last month .
article_snippet: disabled model Ami Sano goes down the catwalk in Carrie Hammer’s show during rehearsals before modeling on the runway .
article_snippet: Ami Sano electric wheelchair before modeling on the runway .