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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...

The Evolution of Winter Wear

The Evolution of Winter Wear

Ellen Freeborn January 20, 2015

Blame it on the snow, or the simple ebb and flow of trends, but one can’t deny that college students' winter wardrobe has evolved significantly over the past couple of years.It’s hard to forget the...

Ellen Freeborn

Normcore: the anti-trend trend

Ellen Freeborn January 13, 2015

Maybe you’ve noticed that the most popular fashion accessory has been the iPhone for a couple years now. I’ve become more acquainted with the tops of peoples heads than their faces as I look around...

Exquisite Inc. fashion show to display fall styles

Felicia Ssempala November 24, 2014

Tonight, Exquisite Inc. will host its annual fall fashion show, “Fall Into Fashion,” in the Kent State Student Center Ballroom. The doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show begins at 7 p.m.The show will...

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...

Fall Fashion Forecasters

Sneak peak: Predicting next season’s fashion trends

Felicia Ssempala October 7, 2014

Fall is just around the corner, but fashion forecasters are already looking at trends for Spring 2015. Websites like Worth Global Style Network and Women’s Wear Daily forecast fashion trends up to two...

The Kent State Fashion School put on a small scale fashion show for the Ohio Newspaper Association Convention in the Kent State Hotel in Kent on Sunday night.

Visual Kent

Jake Byk September 30, 2014

The Kent State Fashion Program, headed by J.R Campbell, is nationally, and even internationally, renowned. From New York to Florence, Italy, the program continues to surprise and impress everyone — including...

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