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Rock the Runway brings pop music fashion to life

Audrey Fletcher March 7, 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...

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...

Alex Logsdon, a senior fashion merchandising major organizes clothing at the Kent State Fashion Store in Acorn Alley on Thursday Feb. 5, 2015. " I would love to work for Ralph Lauren someday" said Logsdon who has been working at the store for almost a year.

Kent State Fashion School seeks improvement

Kelsey Drumm February 8, 2015

The Kent State Fashion School Store experienced turning points when the company hired a new store manager and established plans to move locations.Kent State’s Fashion School ranks in the top five in...

Team Roame explains the prototype of its design at the finalist presentations of the Fashion/Tech Hackathon event hosted in Rockwell Hall on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. Roame won first place and a $1,500 award with the design of a backpack that also acts as a hands-free navigational device. The 36-hour event challenged students to combine fashion with technology using resources such as the textile lab available in Rockwell Hall as well as their imaginations.

Kent State hosts second annual Fashion/Tech Hackathon

Alexandria Valverde February 1, 2015

Fashion and technology came together for one the weekend as students crowded Rockwell Hall for the second annual Kent State Fashion/Tech Hackathon from Jan 30 to Feb 1.More than 200 students from more...

Photos submitted by Kent State students from their study abroad experiences.

KSU students share desires behind studying away multiple times

Taylor Meade February 1, 2015

For some Kent State students, the desire to study abroad overseas or across the country has led them to participate in multiple trips.Senior public health major Erin Schmitt who studied in  Italy, Guatemala...

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...