Faculty Member Abigail Glaum-Lathbury Parodies Luxury Fashion in the New York Times

Abigail Glaum-Lathbury in her studio. Image courtesy of The New York Times.

Abigail Glaum-Lathbury in her studio. Image courtesy of The New York Times.

Associate Professor Abigail Glaum-Lathbury (BFA 2006) was featured in the New York Times discussing her designs and their role in today’s fashion scene. In the profile, she details how she created her newest project, the Genuine Unauthorized Clothing Clone Institute, which stars a collection of garments created to challenge the concepts of “originality, brand value, and desire” in fashion. The project takes the silhouettes of luxury clothing items, blurs all logos and copyrighted material, and turns them into patterns available to download for free on the project’s website. Glaum-Lathbury also explains how learning about fashion law has informed her creation process and shaped her perspective on the fashion industry. “One of many, many things that I love about clothing is that it is inherently social,” Glaum-Lathbury tells the Times. “I don’t think that there is a one size fits all approach to questioning or intervening in the many issues that plague the fashion industry or that this work happens in only one way.”