Abbey signed with IMG worldwide at 16 and walked the runways of New York, London, Milan, and Paris for designers old and new. For the fashion nerds out there, Abbey was a muse to Anne Demeulemeester, walked a catwalk in a medieval prison in Paris with wolves for Alexander McQueen, had Yves Saint Laurent--the actual man--tailor one of his original 1970’s designs to her body for a retrospective of his work, descended the Spanish Steps in Rome for Valentino, and was given an art history lesson by Karl Lagerfeld during a pre-show Chanel fitting.  That man knew his Rococo from his Early Baroque.  Abbey fell in love with the theatrics of fashion.

 Realizing the limitations of modeling, she moved on to pursue a degree in art history, studio art, and environmental science at Columbia University and a Masters of Fine Art from UCLA.

She is an award winning artist for her performance and installation work with the collective Our Literal Speed.

Abbey has been in residence or performed at The whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Alberta, Canada), The Ratti Foundation (Como, Italy), and many more.

As a newly minted actress, Abbey has most recently appeared in HBO Max’s Gossip Girl, Dennis Dugan’s 2021 film Love, Weddings, and Other Disasters, and Narciso Rodriguez’s new perfumes Musc Noir & Musc Noir Rose, for her…