All Walks Beyond the Catwalk is an initiative started in an attempt to challenge preconceptions of size, race and age within fashion. Founded by fashion writer and broadcaster Caryn Franklin, fashion consultant Debra Bowne and Model Sanctuary founder Erin O' Connor the organisation's seeds started to grow in mid-2009. Since the fashion industry has so much clout over what is considered to be the ideal body shape London Fashion Week seemed like a good place to start operations, working from the inside out.

Initiating by teaming up and coming designers with a range of professional models, an All Walks Beyond the Catwalk shoot was created for the pre-fall 2009 issue of Dazed and Confused. The designers had to make a hand fitted outfit for each of the models whatever their varied size, rather than choosing a regulation size model as an afterthought. Following the publication of the images, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk launched during London Fashion Week in Autumn last year at Somerset House, each model wearing their bespoke outfit.

During this spring's London Fashion Week All Walks Beyond the Catwalk were again present to promote individuality in body image by setting up a photo-booth to capture the enormous range of people interested in fashion, each photo taken being added to a wall of photos inside the building.