Sitting down in January to write her plan for the year ahead at Cool Crutches, a business selling walking sticks and crutches, Amelia Peckham added a new item to the wish list. “I wanted to see them on catwalks.”
At the time it was just a pipe dream, but four months later it became a reality when Victoria Beckham, the fashion designer and former Spice Girl, chose to use one of Peckham’s crutches when she appeared on the runway of her show at Paris Fashion Week.
It happened completely by chance, said Peckham, 38, who had first spotted Beckham using one of her crutches earlier in April when the star was photographed in London shortly after breaking a bone in her foot. Peckham said she
