Abby Adler is a stylist and consultant with experience in London, Paris, and New York. Starting in the fashion cupboard at AnOther Magazine almost 10 years ago, she moved to NYC to further hone her skills under editor and chief at i-D Magazine. After four years in NYC, she relocated to Paris to work with Marie Amelie Sauve at Mastermind Magazine.
After living and working in these fashion capitals, her style grew to encompass a strong reference to all three of these places. One that blends vintage and archive pieces with a focus on construction, detail, and silhouette – resulting in beautiful and ingenious looks.
The representation of the human body within fashion is something I think about often, the bodies of the women around me, the bodies of the women I look up to, how the bodies of women in the media are portrayed etc. The bodies that inspire me most are the ones that are empowered in their representation, no matter the size, shape or form. Within my work I am most drawn to the bodies that people feel they can identify with. Fashion always seemed to be obsessed with unattainable extremes, and I feel that this needs to change. It would make me happy to start seeing a much wider representation of a whole range of body sizes, rather than just two extreme sides of the spectrum.
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I take a lot of inspiration from my peers; other young artists whether it be fashion designers, photographers, set designers or anyone else for that matter. I love seeing other young people doing their thing and making a mark in the fashion industry, I also love being able to work with peers and fully trust their vision. In terms of what I would change, I guess I would just love to continue to see the fashion industry keep putting faith and trust and opportunity into a younger generation.
My most treasured memory… It’s so hard to choose, I feel like I probably have a favourite memory for every stage of my life. But overall my best memories probably all begin at the beach, I grew up by the beach for the first eight years of my life and spend the summer by that same beach every year. My Grandma and I used to take two yellow and white striped beach chairs down to the beach every year in early September, when it was a bit cooler and far less crowded, we would sit there and chat and watch the waves go by for hours. Many ‘treasured’ memories, become treasured in hindsight, and in the moment you might not even have realised how special of an experience it really was, but even in that moment my Grandma and I would talk about how much we treasured those days sitting there on the beach with the cool September air.
I wish I could say a lot of my life wasn’t lived online… but I am afraid my friends would say I would be lying. People tend to have negative connotations towards social media, and phones in general. However I sort of have the opposite, it allows me to keep in such regular contact with many of my best friends who live halfway across the globe, it also allows me to reconnect with old friends and see what they’re up to. I find something quite beautiful and nostalgic about seeing something on social media, for example an old or distant friend getting engaged that you otherwise would have had no idea about, and being able to reconnect, even if it’s fleeting. So, the answer is I probably live a lot of my life online…
