When multidisciplinary artist Katrin Schnabl talks about her work, the conversation doesn’t stay neatly in one category. It dances—from sculpture to fashion, from performance to philosophy. Her practice, like her materials, is fluid. It shifts. It stretches. Working as she does in fashion design, installation, performance, and sculpture, among other mediums, it makes sense that her clothing is meant to exist as works of art when not on the body. “My work is so much about pattern,” she says. “That’s really the blueprint for everything.” Pattern and movement—those are some of the threads connecting Schnabl’s work.

A professor and former chair of fashion design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Schnabl perfectly embodies its cross-disciplinary spirit, seamlessly gliding b

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