MEET OUR FOUNDER : LUIZ FAYE
She didn’t find a seat at the table.
She built the table. Set the standard.
And invited the industry to meet it.
For ten years, Luiz Faye was a police officer. She spent a decade in service, the kind of work that asks everything of you and gives you, in return, a very clear understanding of what you are made of.
She was made of a great deal.
In 2017, she was medically retired from the force after being diagnosed with a degenerative condition affecting her spine, pelvis and legs. The career she had built. The body she had relied on. Both changed, without her permission, in ways that could not be undone.
She became a wheelchair user. And then she decided what that meant.
The punch bag in the corner
During rehab with her personal trainer, Luiz saw a punch bag in the corner of the room. She assumed it wasn’t for her. That assumption lasted approximately thirty seconds.
Her trainer said: why don’t you do it in your chair?
She couldn’t think of a reason why not.
The next day she bought a pair of gloves. She went looking for an adaptive boxing coach. And she discovered, very quickly, that no such world properly existed. There was a void. The kind of void that either stops you or becomes your purpose.
For Luiz, it became her purpose.
In 2019, she became the World Boxing Council’s first female adaptive boxer and coach. In 2020, one of only two wheelchair users in the country to qualify as an England Boxing coach. She founded Kronik Warriors — the only fully affiliated adaptive boxing academy in England — and built a community of people who travel from across the UK to train with her. A tribe, as she calls them. Built by disabled people, for disabled people.
The woman who walked into a physio gym grieving what she’d lost had, four years later, rewritten what was possible for an entire sport.
Then she started travelling the world. And noticed something.
Luiz has visited twelve countries. She has stayed in some of the world’s most celebrated properties. The Langham Melbourne. The Sofitel Dubai Palm. Places that market themselves on the language of luxury on excellence, on care, on the finest details.
What she found was that luxury, as an industry, had never properly met the standard it claimed to hold. Not for everyone. Not from a wheelchair. The accessible rooms existed. The lifts worked. But the experience, the seamless, considered, elevated experience that justifies the price point, was rarely there.
Nobody was documenting this with authority. Nobody was holding these properties to account not from a campaign, not from a policy document, but from lived experience, with taste, and with receipts.
Luiz decided to be that person.
The Inclusive Edit
The Inclusive Edit is built on a simple belief: the finest things in life are for everyone. Not as a moral statement. As a standard.
Every review is conducted in person. Every property is assessed against the standard it claims to hold. Not a diluted version, not a separate category, not a box-ticking checklist. The same standard of excellence. Applied to everyone.
Because when a space works for the person it forgot to include, it works better for everyone.
Luiz is the founder and the standard-setter. The platform is the vehicle. The mission is bigger than any single review: an industry that builds inclusion in from the beginning, not as an afterthought, not as a legal requirement, but because it is simply what luxury means.
Luiz Faye. Founder, The Inclusive Edit.
The perspective they forgot to include. Now the only one that matters.