Nikki Hind

Name: Nikki Hind
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SKU: 9780645558425
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Dressed for Success

By John Dickson

Summary

Meet Nikki Hind, a blind fashion designer who turned her passion for creating clothes into a successful career. Despite losing vision in both eyes, Nikki never stopped dreaming, dressing up and designing outfits that allowed her to express herself in unique ways. After a stroke during pregnancy led to complete blindness, she founded Blind Grit, a fashion label showcased at Melbourne Fashion Week that empowers people with disabilities.
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This inspiring story is ideal for children interested in fashion, creativity, and tales of resilience and determination.

The third book in the Big Visions series that portrays significant Australians living with blindness or low vision features a blind fashion designer whose work is shown at Melbourne Fashion Week.

Description

Meet Nikki Hind, the blind fashion designer with her own fashion label. When she was growing up, Nikki couldn’t see out of her left eye. That didn’t stop her from dressing up and making her own clothes, though. When she put on different outfits, she could be anyone.

After a stroke during her pregnancy took away Nikki’s vision in her right eye, she decided to pursue a career doing what she had always loved: designing. Nikki started her own fashion label, Blind Grit, and now, Nikki’s label is shown at Melbourne Fashion Week and employs people with disabilities and challenges.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780645558425

Publisher: Berbay Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 October 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Berbay Publishing

Illustration: Full Colour

Contributors:

Illustrated by Chantel de Sousa

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 399g

Pages: 40

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Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational John Dickson

About the Author

John Dickson is an experienced and successful journalist, copywriter and award-winning children’s author. He has written several children’s books including M is for Mutiny: history by alphabet (shortlisted, Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards, 2018), Under My Bed, Norton took Something and The Good, the bad and the silly: stories of our past. Chantel de Sousa is a Melbourne-based illustrator with a passion for pop culture.