British designers Rob Jones and Cat Teatum of Teatum Jones cast Kelly Knox, who was born without the lower half of her right arm and Jack Eyers, 27, whose leg was amputated when he was 16, to model in their AW17 collection.
Jack Eyers works as a personal trainer and he is a lover of water sport.
He told Abilitymagazine: “I was born with a condition—it basically didn’t grow properly. It’s called PFFB (proximal femoral focal deficiency). It’s a deficiency in the femur, the big bone at the top. There’s a whole number of reasons why, but they haven’t really found the right one. So it didn’t grow properly. I walked around with a straight leg, didn’t have a knee joint. And then when I was 16, I was like, ‘Just get rid of it. Cut it off. Had enough of it.’ It held me back everywhere. It was completely my choice. That was several years ago. From then on it’s been all uphill, just good. I definitely felt like it held me back, so as soon as it was gone, I felt freer, lighter.”
Knox was previously the winner of BBC3’s Britain’s Missing Top Model. In 2015 Eyers was the first disabled male model to walk at New York Fashion Week.
