Janelle Abbott has made a career out of upstyling and reusing materials.
Janelle Abbott had a choice to make. The Seattle-based designer behind fashion label JRAT was styling the last of her looks on the eve of her solo New York Fashion Week debut, and one garment, a cornflower blue ruffled gown, just wasn’t working for her. But her models, a troupe of dancers and artists of all shapes and sizes, loved the look. Other designers might have been precious about their vision, but Abbott sent it down the runway as it was. At the end of the day, she says, the clothes are meant to be worn.
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