The first time I attended New York Fashion Week was in 2017. As I arrived in the city that never sleeps, it quickly became evident as to why people call it that: there simply isn’t time to sleep when you’re navigating accessibility barriers. I went from fashion show to fashion show, where every time the people at the door were rarely informed on how a wheelchair user like myself could enter the building. At one point, my personal assistant had to throw me over her shoulder and drag my chair up the steps behind her — not the entrance I had always dreamed of, but it got me thinking: in an industry that celebrates diversity, why wasn’t there anyone around that looked like me?