https://abigailglaumlathbury.com abigailglaum-lathbury.com Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:42:59 +0000 https://abigailglaumlathbury.com en https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Press-1 Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:42:59 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Press-1 Press: 2024 “Design 50 2024: The Fifty People Who Shape Chicago” New City Magazine 2022 “What is Luxury Without the Logos?” New York Times, May 24th 2020 “Forever 21's new owners face a slowdown in fast fashion,” Retail Dive, February 25 “Ethical Fashion? These Women Offer a New Pattern” Christian Science Monitor, January 8 2019 “How We Fell In Love with the Jumpsuit” BBC (online), November 6th Episode 59: Liberation, Featured Guest, Opposable Thumbs Podcast, June 7 Episode 1 The Rational Dress Society: Constructing Clothing, The New Constructivist Podcast, May 14 “Design 50: Who Shapes Design in Chicago 2019” New City, March Issue 2018 “New City Designed Objects Issue” Designer Spotlight, New City, December Issue “Melania Trump’s ‘colonial hat’ re-sparks debate: Does it matter what she wears?” Chicago Tribune Q & A, October 9th “Can Fashion Right Its Wrongs?” Business of Fashion, Special Edition 12, Print (English and Chinese editions also available online), September 2018 “The Working Wardrobe” Dirty Furniture Magazine, Issue 4/6 (print) Summer 2018 issue “Universal Jumpsuit Your Next Work Outfit?” CBS national news, aired August 22 “Counter-Fashion and Alternative Dress an Interview with the Rational Dress Society” Exhibitions on the Cusp (online), August 22 “Not So Tight: Adjusting the Seams of Art + Fashion” Exhibitions on the Cusp (online) July 20th   “Fast fashion through the lens of instagram” CNN (online), July 24th “Fast fashion furious controversy: Why retailers like Zara and H&M keep making headlines for offensive clothing” The Washington Post, June 29 “These Designers Think Everyone Should Wear a Jumpsuits” The Drive, Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) April 4th “The Jumpsuit That Will Replace All Clothes Forever” Paris Review (online), March 21st “To Signify Dreams on the Surface of the Body” Brooklyn Rail (online), February 7th 2017           “What if Clothes Were Made to Fit Bodies,” Racked, September 19th “Rational Fashion,” Chicago Reader, September 14th “Fighting Unfair Labor Practices with Recycled Style,” American Craft Council, July 27th  “Zipping Your Own Dress Shouldn't Be a Problem,” Racked, June 22nd “Don't want your Ivanka Trump clothes? One art collective has a solution (and revolution) for that,” Best of New Orleans (online), June 13th      “This Brand Is Shredding Ivanka Trump Clothing And Turning It Into Fashion With A Cause,” Nylon Magazine (online), May 31st “Ivanka Trump’s Unwanted Clothes Are Being Recycled For A Very Good Cause,” Forward (online), May 10th “Ivanka Trump’s clothing is being rounded up and turned into something she’d never wear,” Revelist, May 9th “Is Recycled Ivanka Trump Clothing the New Uniform of the Resistance?,” Flare, May 5th “Discarded Ivanka Trump Clothing Is Getting Recycled for a Good Cause,” Brit+Co, May 5th   “2 Women Are Turning Old Ivanka Trump Clothes Into Something You Can Feel Good About,” The Huffington Post, May 5th “How to Turn Your Ivanka Trump Clothing Into Something Pretty,” The Cut (online), May 4th    “This Group Is Recycling Ivanka Trump Clothing Into Millennial Pink Jumpsuits,” Refinery 29, May 4th “Here’s One Way to Get Rid of That Unwanted Ivanka Trump Clothing,” Racked, May 4th       “Envisioning an Art Museum on the Moon,” Hyperallergic, February 24th 2016 “Radically Uniform,” American Craft Council, August/September Print Issue “Moins C’est Mieux, Vous Alles Adorer Qu’on Vous Mette Des Limites,” Stylist France, Cover Story July 6 “The Sales Pitch to Buy Less,” Racked, June 30 “Interview With the Rational Dress Society,” Viralnet (online), June 29 “The Rational Dress Society Wants You to Wear a JUMPSUIT,” Flaunt Magazine, June 22 “Are jumpsuits the future?,” RN Drive, Australian Broadcast Corporation, June 14 “Tired of the tyranny of fashion? Wear a jumpsuit every day,” The Guardian (online), June 2 “Jumping in,” Surface Magazine, The Fashion Issue, March 2015 “Fast Fashion Shopping: It’s cute, it’s cheap: but should you really buy it?,” Chicago Tribune, November 26 “Want to Make the Best Festering Wounds For Halloween? Go to Echo Park,” LA Weekly, October 15 “The Rational Dress Society,” Fallopian Utopia, KCHUNG Radio, October 9 “JUMPSUIT: The Ungendered Monogarment to Replace All Clothing,” The Dotted Line (online), May 27 “New York Today,” The New York Times City Room (online), February 19 “SAIC Alum and Faculty Member’s Fashion Garment Project Gathers Interest,” SAIC News (online), March,16 “The Next Counter-Fashion Revolution will be in JUMPSUITS,”The Columbia Journalist (online), February 26 “Rational Dress Society’s JUMPSUIT Jumps Up New Kickstarter Campaign,” The Columbia Chronicle (online), February 23 “Meet Joe,” Interview for Brazilian channel Meet Joe, Chicago/Sao Paulo, Brazil  2013 “Dream Catcher,” Fashion Editorial Chicago Magazine, February Issue 2011 “18 Russian-Inspired Fall/Winter Looks From A Savvy Local Designer,” Refinery29 (online), October 17 2010 “Sculpture Classics,” The Washington Post Express, April 16 “Shape Shifter,” Fashion Washington Magazine, The Washington Post, Fall 2010 “Role Play,” Today’s Chicago Woman, March Issue 2009 “Chicago’s Fashion Focus Crafts New Look,” Women’s Wear Daily (online) “Bold Basics,” Chicago Magazine, March Issue “Best Of Chicago,” The Chicago Reader, March 26 2008 “The Radar Fashion,” CS Magazine, January Issue “The Fun Side Of Fashion,” The Chicago Journal, October 8 “Design on a Dali,” Chicago Magazine, October Issue “City of Bold Shoulders,” The Chicago Tribune, September 28 “Second City Style,” Venus Magazine, September Issue “Abigail Glaum-Lathbury Structured Beauty,” Magnifeco (online), June 23 2007 “Hidden Light,” Mule Magazine, Issue No. 4 2006 “Great Picks,” Lucky Magazine, February Issue https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Fashion-Exhibitions-Showrooms Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:41:52 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Fashion-Exhibitions-Showrooms Fashion Exhibitions & Showrooms: 2009 Designers & Agents, juried market, September, New York, NY Designers & Agents, juried market, February, New York, NY 2008 Designers & Agents, juried market, October, Los Angeles, CA Designers & Agents, juried market, September, New York, NY 2007 Tallulah Showroom, showroom representation, January, New York, NY The Train, juried market, February, New York, NY https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Fashion-Collections Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:40:17 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Fashion-Collections Fashion Collections: Designed under the label Elmidae “No Cape, No Crusader” Spring Summer 2014 “Likewise, Moreover, Together” Fall/Winter 2013 “Spectator” Fall/Winter 2012, in collaboration with Nonnie Threads “Siberian Spring,” Spring/Summer 2012 “CCCP,” Fall/Winter 2011 “Moscow,” Spring Summer 2011   Designed under the label Abigail Glaum-Lathbury “Edison,” Fall/Winter 2010    “Invention and the Obsolete,” Spring Summer 2010  “Abyss,” Fall/Winter 2009   “Araucana,” Spring/Summer 2009  “Medulla Oblongata,” Fall/Winter 2008  “Morphology,” Spring/Summer 2008 https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Fashion-Design-Positions Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:37:15 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Fashion-Design-Positions Fashion Design Positions: 2019 - 2020 Designer of Libaerty Workwear, a line of workwear for women in the construction industries 2007 - 2018   Designer and President, Elmidae Inc.  2004 - 2010   Designer and President, Abigail Glaum-Lathbury Collection   https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Teaching-2 Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:34:45 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Teaching-2 Teaching: 2024 – PresentSage Endowded Chair of Fashion Design,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2025 – PresentFull Professor, Fashion Department,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2015 – 2025Assistant & Associate Professor, Fashion Department,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2020 - 2021 Arts Research Collective Teaching Faculty 2009 – 2015Lecturer & Adjunct Professor, Fashion Department,The School of the Art Institute of Chicago   https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Publications-Reviews-Published-Interviews Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:31:31 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Publications-Reviews-Published-Interviews Publications, Reviews & Published Interviews: 2022 Butts: A Backstory, by Heather Radke, Interview Subject, Simon & Schuster Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion, Jennifer Farley Gordon & Colleen Hill, Bloomsbury Academic Press 2020 Fashion Conscious, exhibition catalog, Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA 2019 “One Dress: Shaping Fashion Futures through Utopian Thinking,” Burcikova, Milada, journal article, Fashion Practice, Volume 11, Pages 328-345 The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures, Edited by, Aga Skrodzka, Xiaoning Lu & Katarzyna Marciniak, Oxford University Press   2018 Exhibitions on the Cusp, Tremaine Foundation, Chicago, IL, 2018 Cultural Uniform, exhibition catalog, Art In General, Brooklyn, NY 2017               Items: Is Fashion Modern, exhibition catalog, The Museum of Modern Art, New York https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Publications-as-Author Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:29:57 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Publications-as-Author Publications as Author: 2023 “Radical Fashion Exercises” book chapter excersise, Valiz Publishing, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2020 “Counter-Fashion as Critical Practice,” book chapter for Fashion, Dress and Post-postmodernism, Bloomsbury Publishing 2019 “Counter-Fashion as Critical Practice,” journal article, Design & Culture Special Issue, Volume 11, Pages 345-353 2015 The Rational Dress Society Presents JUMPSUIT: a manifesto, Notes on Looking (online), October 3, 2015 https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Grants-Awards-Residencies Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:24:41 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Grants-Awards-Residencies Grants, Awards & Residencies: 2023 Nominee USA Artists Award 2021 Nominee Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, Emerging Designer Category 2020 Nominee Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, Emerging Designer Category 2019 Rational Dress Society, Lead Artist Partner for Philadelphia Area Creative, Residency, Haverford College, Haverford, PA Bard Graduate Center, Residency, New York, NY 2018 Creative Economic Development Fund (CEDF) Grant, Center for Cultural Investigation (CCI) Los Angeles, CA Nominee USA Artists in Design Evanston Art Center, Artist in Residence, Evanston, IL 2017 Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Project Grant, Chicago, IL Graduate Research Fellowship Award, The SAIC Shapiro Center, Chicago, IL 2016 Creative Economic Development Fund (CEDF) Grant, Center for Cultural Investigation (CCI) Los Angeles, CA Hyde Park Art Center, Artist Residency, April – June, Chicago, IL 2015 Persbo Studio, Artist in Residence, Månkarbo, Sweden IASPIS International Cultural Exchange Grant, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm, Sweden 2009 Rising Star Award, Fashion Group International, Chicago, IL Best Chicago Designer 2009, Chicago Reader, Chicago, IL https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Lectures-Artist-Talks Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:19:16 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Lectures-Artist-Talks Lectures, Artist Talks & Conferences: 2024 “Counter Fashion as Practice”, Artist Talk, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL 2022 “La raíz social de la moda sostenible” Conferencia/Lecture for Diseño, Cultura y Contexto, Área Diseño Disruptiva, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, Ciudad de México, México Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis, Interview and Discussion, the University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2021 Chicago Textile Week, Moderated Panel Discussion, Anna Brown Studio, Chicago, IL The Rational Dress Society, Lecture for Nature, Economy, Society and Culture, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London, UK “JUMPSUIT: How to Dress for the End of Capitalism”, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London, UK 2020 Hoda Katebi & Abigail Glaum-Lathbury on Blue Tin Production Co-op, Lecture & moderated conversation, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago IL One Book, One Chicago, Beyond Borders Slow Fashion, Moderated Conversation, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL Fashion as Resistance, Lecture, Columbia College, Chicago, IL “Teaching Through the Moment”, Lecture, Alfred University, Alfred, New York Conscious Closet Club, Arts Research Collective WORKCOAT, Online Talk The Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute, Artist talk, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Halle, Germany The Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute, Artist talk, Columbia College, Chicago, IL The Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute, Artist talk, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2019 The Rational Dress Society Presents: JUMPSUIT, Gallery Talk, Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway The Rational Dress Society Presents: JUMPSUIT, Artist Talk, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway The Rational Dress Society Presents: JUMPSUIT, Haverford College, Haverford, PA Philadelphia Textile Industry Walking Tour with Rational Dress Society, Invitation from Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA Panelist, Fashion at a Turning Point: Panel Discussion, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Panelist, Fashion Revolution 2019 Panel Discussion, Chicago, IL Panelist, Chicago Fair Trade Panel Discussion, Chicago, IL Panelist, Chicago Economic Forum: Fast Fashion in the Age of Maximalism, University of Chicago Panel Discussion, Chicago, IL The Rational Dress Society Presents: JUMPSUIT, Artist Talk, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2018 The Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute, Artist Talk, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Gallery talk with the Rational Dress Society, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Presenter, “Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute: Copyright, Trademark and Modern Sumptuary Law,” Fashion Colloquium, Arnhem, the Netherlands “The Rational Dress Society Presents a History of Counter Fashion”, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV Presenter, Copyright, Trademark and Sumptuary Law Panel Discussion, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY Presenter, “The Rational Dress Society Presents: Counter Fashion as Critical  Practice" College Arts Association National Conference, Los Angeles, CA 2017  Artist Lecture, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL Presenter, “Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute (GUCCI),” Everything and Everybody as Material: Beyond Fashion Design Methods Conference, Boras, Sweden 2016 Visiting Artist Lecture, Loyola University, Chicago, IL Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia College Chicago, IL Presenter, “Fast Fashion, The True Cost,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Presenter, “Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption and Design,” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association National Conference, Seattle, WA Visiting Artist Lecture, CalArts, Valencia, CA 2015 Visiting Artist Lecture, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Artist Lecture, Art Center, Los Angeles, CA Panelist, “Activism + Apparel,” Brooklyn Fashion & Design Accelerator, Brooklyn, NY Artist Lecture, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden Artist Lecture, Gävle Konstskola, Gävle, Sweden Artist Lecture, Kostfack, Stockholm, Sweden Artist Lecture, The Stockholm Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden 2014 Visiting Artist Lecture, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI “Flux Thursday,” Flux Factory, artist talk, Long Island City, NY “Hour of Power Redux,” Machine Project, artist talk, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Social Capital Markets Conference, panelist, San Francisco, CA https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Group-Exhibitions-Workshops Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:05:03 +0000 abigailglaum-lathbury.com https://abigailglaumlathbury.com/Group-Exhibitions-Workshops Group Exhibitions & Workshops: 2023 Dress Code, Newport Art Museum, Newport Rhode Island “La Mochila” (workshop), Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia “Moda y Sostenibilidad”  (workshop) CENTRO de Diseño y Comunicación, Ciudad de México, México 2020 “Make America Rational Again” (workshop), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Fashion-Conscious, Wignall Art Museum, Chaffey College, Cucamonga, CA 2019 Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Don’t feed the Monster! Punkt Ø / Gallery F 15, Moss Norway Make Your Own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY Make Your Own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Haverford College, Haverford, PA 2018 Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), The Philadelphia Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Art In General, Brooklyn, NY Shape of Now: Closing Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY    2017 Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA Items: Is Fashion Modern?, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Shape of Now, Evanston Art Center, Chicago, IL      Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Everything and Everybody as Material, Boras, Sweden Mystic Hyperstitians in the Heart of the Empire, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN Adjunct Positions at FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College, Los Angeles 2016             Connect+ Hyde Park, Hyde Park Art Festival, Chicago, IL Reform: Subversive Fashion, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM   Design Intelligence Exhibition, Folk Art Museum, Hangzhou, China JUMPSUIT Spring/Summer Collection, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 2015 Utopia School, Dome of Visions, Copenhagen, Denmark Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA Make your own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Sewing Rebellion, Long Beach, CA JUMPSUIT (Spring Summer Collection 2016), Leiminspace, Los Angeles, CA Make Your Own JUMPSUIT (workshop), Persbo Studio, Månkarbo, Sweden. JUMPSUIT Fall / Winter Collection, Temporary Agency, Ridgewood, Queens JUMPSUIT Fashion Showcase, The Bakery, Brooklyn, New York 2014 Utopia School, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY Long Story Short, Hubbard Street 2, Chicago, IL  JUMPSUIT Spring/Summer Collection, Silvershed, New York, NY Zero Dark Birthday, Office Hours, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Allure of Couture, Fashion Focus, group runway show, Chicago, IL Seeds of Spring, Chicago Social, group runway show, Chicago, IL Monument, The Seldoms, contemporary dance costume design, Chicago, IL 2007 Three Shades of Dark, The Seldoms, contemporary dance costume design, Chicago, IL Fresh Faces in Fashion, Gen Art, juried group runway show, Chicago, IL Overflow, The Seldoms, contemporary dance costume design, Chicago, IL