Home Universal Design: The Approach of BILLY Footwear to Bring Inclusive Shoes to Market

Universal Design: The Approach of BILLY Footwear to Bring Inclusive Shoes to Market

Type

Workshop

When

Fri, 4:15pm–4:45pm

Event

  • Los Angeles 2025

Young boy shows off his shoes to the camera, displaying the unique zipper design by BILLY Footwear that allows for easy wearing.

Universal Design is the design and composition of an environment so that it can be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people regardless of their age, size, ability or disability. It is a term commonly used in architecture but can apply to so much more. We at BILLY Footwear applied the concept to fashion, specifically shoes, striving to blur lines between adaptive and mass-market.