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James Parr Fell Into Modelling By Accident, But Found Purpose In Rewriting Disability Representation

There’s a moment that James Parr keeps coming back to. He’d just made his runway debut at Melbourne Fashion Festival, not long after “accidentally” falling into a modelling career. Sitting outside Federation Square the next morning as he waited for another fitting, he glanced up at a giant screen that was replaying highlights from the previous day’s runways. Among the footage was Parr himself: tall, tattooed, confidently striding down the runway on his prosthetic leg.