Open Style Lab

Open Style Lab, a 501c(3) non-profit organization, aims to make style accessible to people of all abilities by 2025 through design and technology. The company lives out this mission by following our three aims (1) increasing awareness about the importance of clothing accessibility for people with disabilities, (2) equipping our community with the skills to create accessible clothing and wearable technologies, and (3) developing and distributing designs and technologies that will increase wearable accessibility. We conduct educational programs and perform product development to accomplish these goals. Our flagship educational program runs during the summer from June to August and teams up engineers, designers and occupational therapists with clients who have disabilities. Our summer program is now joined by collaboration classes at the Parsons School of Design in the Academic. This program promotes working with the client through the entire process and together they identify an appa...