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Blackout Fashion Show brings new company to campus

Kelsey Drumm April 22, 2015

The Exquisite Inc. Modeling Troupe and fashion production coordination company Exposure have joined together to present the Blackout Fashion Show, which will raise awareness for multiple sclerosis.The...

Caroline Dengel and Sarah Ferrato from The Wandering Wardrobe, a Cleveland-area traveling fashion boutique, made a stop at Kent State outside Rockwell Hall on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, donating 30 percent of their procedes from the day to Flashanthropy.

Traveling boutique tailors fashion to destination

Jamie Brian April 21, 2015

Caroline Dengel steps into her tangerine-colored truck and adjusts a dress swaying on a rack. Two years ago, she never pictured herself owning a boutique, let alone one on wheels.Dengel always loved the...

The Fashion School to offer its first Fashion School Academy to high school students

Kelsey Drumm April 20, 2015

Twenty high school students interested in fashion will attend Kent State’s first summer Fashion School Academy from June 14-20 this year. The first Fashion School Academy will remain relatively small...

Secrets of fashion revealed in new KSU Museum exhibit

Kelsey Drumm March 13, 2015

The Kent State University Museum opened the “Inside Out: Revealing Clothing’s Hidden Secrets” exhibit on March 12, which emphasizes the fine details and impressive quality of eighteenth to twentieth...

An inside look at the Hong Kong fashion program with Paige Meacham

An inside look at the Hong Kong fashion program with Paige Meacham

Ellen Freeborn March 10, 2015

We all have friends or know people who have studied at Kent State’s New York City or Florence campuses. I had the pleasure of studying in Florence last spring (further solidifying my jealousy and angst...

Rock the Runway brings pop music fashion to life

Audrey Fletcher March 8, 2015

As Asia Parker’s three models walked the runway Saturday, she stood off to the side in the audience cheering them on.The sophomore fashion design major’s collection was the first to grace the...

Artist Piper Shepard talks to art students about her practice on Friday March 6, 2015. Shepard works with cloth cutting them into intricate lace designs.

Artist shows Kent State audience “fragility of human spirit” through textiles

Dara Sander March 7, 2015

A guest artist showed Kent State students how textiles can be more than just fabric and can show the fragility, delicacy and humanity of the human spirit during a lecture on Friday, March 6.Janice Lessman-Moss,...

A model wears a sheer grey sweater with a grey skirt during the showing of the 1998 John Bartlett fall and winter collection during fashion week in Milan, Italy. (This photo may contain offensive content for some readers)

More than a nip-slip

Ellen Freeborn March 3, 2015

A daring new trend has been bouncing around on the runways at every recent fashion week. Most memorable was London’s Spring/Summer 2015 Fashion Week, which took place last fall, where some of the world’s...

A model prepares to walk at 2012's Rock The Runway, Celestial Space Odyssey, on March 10, 2012. This year's Rock The Runway will be "Hip-Hop House Party" themed, this Saturday, March 9 in the student center ballroom from 8:00-11:00 p.m. Photo by Philip Botta.

Fashion and music will collide in annual Rock the Runway fashion show

Kelsey Drumm March 2, 2015

Kent Student Center Programming will host its 11th annual Rock the Runway design competition in the Student Center Ballroom on March 7 at 8 p.m. Rock the Runway is a fashion contest inspired by a different...

The Fashion Student Organization holds the annual Goodwill Personal Styling Show in Rockwell Auditorium on Feb. 27, 2015. Fashion students used inspiration from their favorite fashion designers and, using only garnments from thrift stores, created their own, personal looks.

Fashion Student Organization styles recycled clothes for runway looks

Kelsey Drumm March 1, 2015

 The Fashion Student Organization demonstrated how to style secondhand clothing at the ‘Designer-Driven’ Goodwill Personal Styling Show on Friday, Feb. 27 in the Rockwell Auditorium.The Fashion Student...

A strand of yarn on a knitting machine in the machine Knitting lab located in Rockwell hall on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015.

Knitwear provides solace, style and sustainability

Ellen Freeborn February 24, 2015

During these painfully cold and dragging months, sweater culture explodes. We’ve all watched this happen. When Mother Nature surprises us with a gust of below-freezing wind, we instinctually wrap up...

Psychologist forecasts fashion for Kent State students

Kelsey Drumm February 23, 2015

New York City-based fashion psychologist Dawnn Karen will present her “Dear Dream Chasers” tour on Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Student Center in room 306AB. Karen will visit on behalf of the Modista...

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