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Fashion School provides students to take part in Paris Fashion Week

Taylor Pierce March 10, 2016

The semi-annual fashion event, Paris Fashion Week, which showcased fashion collections to the public and buyers, concluded on Wednesday.The fashion show featured pieces from various artists and designers,...

Allyson Kramer, a sophomore fashion merchandising major on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016.

Fashion merchanding student featured in Seventeen Magazine

Taylor Pierce March 5, 2016

On a typical day in the spring semester at Rockwell Hall, the atmosphere is chaotic as students shuffle through the lobby conducting photo shoots for the Kent State's Fashion School's upcoming Annual Fashion...

Fashion Student Organization to host annual Goodwill Styling Competition

Taylor Pierce February 22, 2016

The Fashion Student Organization (FSO) will be hosting its annual Goodwill Styling Competition at the Fashion School in the Rockwell Auditorium starting at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 26.This styling competition...

Computer engineering major, Madhur Malhotra, of the University of Pittsburgh, camps out on his sleeping bag while working on his team’s project in Rockwell Hall library on Jan. 30, 2016 as part of the Kent Hackathon.

Fashion/Tech Hackathon showcase innovative thinking

Ile-Ife Okantah and Taylor Pierce January 31, 2016

The Fashion School at Kent State partnered with the university's LaunchNET and the Fashion School’s TechStyleLAB to host the third annual Fashion/Tech Hackathon from Jan. 29 to Jan. 31 in Rockwell Hall.More...

Models wearing a collection by Braisha Owens walk the runway at the Modista Fall Fashion show on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013 in Rockwell Hall.

Modista fashion group to present annual fashion show

Felicia Guadagni December 1, 2015

Kent State’s Modista Fashion Group will host its annual fashion show "Modista High: School Dayz" this Saturday from 7-9 p.m. in the Kent State Student Center Ballroom.Modista has produced an annual fashion...

Fashion school nearing end of inaugural summer fashion academy

Brittany Anderson June 18, 2015

To help high school students obtain a more advanced perspective of fashion, the Kent State Fashion School started its first ever weeklong, all-inclusive academy on Monday.The summer fashion school academy...

Fashion School prepares for annual FS2 show this Friday

Kelsey Drumm April 19, 2015

Fashion design and merchandising students are making final preparations for The Fashion School’s Annual Fashion Show, “FS2 Visionnaire,” which is set to start Friday, April 24.The show is an opportunity...

Fashion Week

An inside look at New York Fashion Week

Ellen Freeborn February 17, 2015

As many of you may have gathered (due to constant tweets and Instagram posts from celebrities and your lucky friends who are in New York right now) this past week was New York Fashion Week, and it’s...

The plaza at Lincoln Center on Manhattan’s Upper West Side once again was peppered with people taking in the stylish sights of guests on their way to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. This season, as in recent seasons, more and more designers are leaving the tents to hold their shows elsewhere across the city. 

Fashion students participate in NYC Fashion Week

Kelsey Drumm February 15, 2015

Kent State students are learning first hand about the fashion industry by volunteering at New York City’s Fashion Week from Feb. 11 to 19. The fashion design and merchandising students are currently...

Courtesy of Geoffrey Beene

Kent State University Museum unveils “Geoffrey Beene: American Ingenuity” exhibit

Kelsey Drumm January 31, 2015

The Kent State University Museum opened its “Geoffrey Beene: American Ingenuity” exhibition to showcase clothing articles created by the designer throughout his 40-year career on Thursday, Jan. 29.American...

Kent State Fashion School located at Rockwell Hall was vandalized with message reading "sweat-shop slave styles trending.”

Rockwell Hall vandalized with sweatshops message

Emily Mills November 14, 2014

Rockwell Hall was vandalized sometime late Thursday night or early Friday morning.The message, “sweat-shop slave styles trending,” was spray-painted on the back wall of the building in brown spray-paint.That...

Student learn new skills at TechStyleLAB workshop

Felicia Ssempala October 30, 2014

The TechStyleLAB will be hosting a “Laser Cut Acrylic” workshop on Oct. 31, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Rockwell Hall.Prerna Suri, graduate fashion student and graduate assistant in the TechStyleLAB will...