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Vera Bradley rep set to visit Fashion School

Felicia Guadagni November 11, 2015

Kent State Fashion School will showcase its fashion merchandising program during the event “Merchandising Symposium: Building a Brand featuring Vera Bradley” on Nov. 16 at 5:30 p.m. in Rockwell Auditorium.The...

Fashion student turns dreams into reality

Felicia Guadagni September 24, 2015

Lauren Pfieffer, senior fashion merchandising major at Kent State, went from flipping through Seventeen Magazine, to being featured in the magazine and even working at the publication during the summer....

Letter to the editor: #GoCargo

Jacob Derwin September 23, 2015

Editor’s note: This is in response to Jessa Schroeder’s opinion piece titled, “The cargo pants trend needed to end before it started” published on Sept. 17.You call them "dorky," "outdated" and...

Students walk out of The Kent State Fashion Building Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. The increase of enrollment has faculty questioning what this means for the constantly growing fashion school.

Fashion school flooded with new students

Felicia Guadagni September 16, 2015

Kent State's school of Fashion has increased nearly 20 percent in the last decade. The increase in the Fashion School student body has been a gradual process, but the challenges of handling such a large...

Jessa Schroeder is a senior journalism major and columnist for The Kent Stater. Contact her at jschro11@kent.edu

Opinion: The cargo pants trend needed to end before it started

Jessa Schroeder September 16, 2015

In recent years there has been much debate over cargo pants. The trend is most commonly worn by the male population but it is particularly disputed amongst women when speaking about men. The rumors you...

Fashion show teaches about human trafficking

Kathryn Rush September 13, 2015

Kent State University Stark Campus will host UNCHAINED, a human sex trafficking awareness fashion show Sept. 21.UNCHAINED is a non-profit Columbus-based organization founded by Felicia Kalan and Stephanie...

New fashion exhibit comes to Kent

Raeanna Hertz September 13, 2015

The Kent State Museum is roaring about its upcoming exhibit, Flapper Style: 1920s Fashion.The new exhibit will be open to the public on Friday, Sept. 25 and will continue to be opened for the duration...

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...