The Chicago Reader Spotlights SAIC Fashion Show

Nine models wear pastel, multi-colored clothing and pose in front of a matching pastel, multi-colored backdrop.

Models Omani Cross, Noxteli, Regina Rodriguez, El Wettig, Soi Sauce, Micah Sweezie, Francis Carter, Lex Wooley, and designer Casey Knepley wear Knepley’s collection What We Have. Image courtesy of the Chicago Reader.

Models Omani Cross, Noxteli, Regina Rodriguez, El Wettig, Soi Sauce, Micah Sweezie, Francis Carter, Lex Wooley, and designer Casey Knepley wear Knepley’s collection What We Have. Image courtesy of the Chicago Reader.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) first in-person Fashion Show since 2019, which took place this past May, was recently spotlighted by the Chicago Reader. In their coverage of the event, the article highlights the collections of recent alums Casey Knepley (BFA 2022), whose garments were specially tailored to members of the local LGBTQ+ community, Iyomi Ho Ken (BFA 2022), whose clothing changed colors over the course of the event, and Andrew Bohlin (BFA 2022), who took inspiration from the Ediacaran and Paleogene periods to tell the story of life on Earth. “At SAIC a lot of the work that we make is really experimental,” Associate Professor Abigail Glaum-Lathbury (BFA 2006) told the Reader. “A lot of what we’re doing is teaching people how to think creatively, to have confidence in their own research and their own ideas.”

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