Group Wardrobe Therapy with Janelle Abbott

2301 1st Avenue,Seattle WA 98121

14 July, 2022

Description

Change your favorite garments in your closet that you never wear into something awesome. Interactive group discussion around personal history with clothing, how we shop, why we shop, what we own, how we maintain it, and where we each individually see our style going into the future. A therapeutic environment though note: Janelle Abbott is not a real therapist! More about Wardrobe Therapy here. About Janelle: Janelle Abbott was born into the fashion industry—her parents owned a clothing manufacturing company. With a reverence for the labor behind clothing, Janelle graduated with a BFA from Parsons (2012). By that time, fast fashion had taken over, subjugating millions of garment workers to unethical, slave-like conditions in order artificially lower the cost of clothing and bolster profits for CEOs / share-holders. In the face of the unethical, exploitive, anti-ecological agenda of corporate fashion, Janelle carved a path committed to upcycling, hand craft, and the zero waste methodology. Whether clothing, wearable furniture, sculpture, and tapestries, Janelle creates with used materials that hold emotional and historical value. Dense, clashing, and rhythmic, Janelle’s work is scrappy, unapologetic, and a testament to the real humans labor behind every consumer product we engage with.