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Students work in Rockwell Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018.

Fashion design students, faculty reach compromise over petition to extend Rockwell’s hours

The university extended Rockwell Hall’s weekend hours after fashion design students petitioned for increased access to the building’s workspaces.  Rockwell Hall, which houses the Fashion School, was...

Bauer draping the dresses for Netflix's "The Dark Crystal."

Kent State theatre and fashion professor drapes costumes for new Netflix series

Gershon Harrell Fashion reporter November 13, 2019

Assistant theatre professor Kerry Jo Bauer’s passion for fashion design started the moment she received her first sewing machine at five years old. Bauer went on to become the costume designer on the...

School of Fashion expansion set for fall 2021

Rockwell Hall, home of Kent State’s School of Fashion and Merchandising, is expected to be renovated before the fall 2021 semester.In part of Phase I of the Gateway Master Plan, Rockwell Hall will expand...

Dani Bennett walking down the run way at the Kent State Fashion show on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017.

‘Tis the Season for All’ show features trendy winter fashion

Ella Abbott November 17, 2017

Rockwell Hall was the set of a winter wonderland Thursday as students put on a holiday-themed fashion show.The show, “Tis the Season for All,” was put together by the students in the “Fashion Show...

Erica Mohler sits on the swing Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, she hopes to dedicate to her deceased friend, Taylor Pifer. So far, $3,000 of the $5,000 needed to dedicate the swing has been raised.

Students raise money to honor murdered fashion student

Jenna Kuczkowski November 15, 2017

Nearly five months after a Kent State fashion design student was found dead in her mother’s North Royalton home, friends have begun to raise money to dedicate a bench swing outside Rockwell Hall in her...

Forms sit in a storage space in the new studio in Terrace Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017.

Fashion students find inspiration in new Terrace Hall studios

Ella Abbott September 6, 2017

Kent State’s fashion students have found a home away from home in Terrace Hall, where the school has added four new studio spaces and nine office spaces.The expansion became a necessity as the Fashion...

Fashion School to expand into Terrace Hall

Isabel Kiefer July 14, 2017

Rockwell Hall’s large, open atrium may be an architectural spectacle and symbol but to 2017 fashion design graduate Toni Lumpkin, it was a temporary work space.“We’d go to the second-floor atrium,”...

One of the first exhibits in the Kent State University Museum in 1985. Photo via the Kent State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives.

Rodgers and Silverman: The lives of Kent State’s influential fashion duo

Payton Moore March 1, 2017

In 1982, a pair of donors gave Kent State a gift that stunned residents, students and fashion collectors worldwide. Jerry Silverman and Shannon Rodgers donated more than 5,000 artifacts, costumes and accessories...

Brianna Hunter models at Crescndo, the Fashion School’s annual fashion show held in Rockwell Hall on April 29, 2016.

Annual Fashion Show sells out opening show

Taylor Pierce April 29, 2016

The Fashion School opened its 34th Annual Fashion Show on Friday April 29th, and will continue Saturday in Rockwell Hall, to a total of three sold out crowds.Rockwell Hall was transformed for the show...

Senior Fashion Mechandising major Noelle Horan hangs clothes in preperation for the annual Kent State School of Fashion Fashion show in Rockwell Hall on Wednesday, April 22, 2015.

Annual Fashion Show inspired by student ‘visionnaires’

Ellen Freeborn April 21, 2015

A visionnaire dreams of innovation and imagines originality. The person envisions a more beautiful, yet tangible future and is able to communicate such visions successfully.This French word, “visionnaire”...

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...

The Kent State Robotics Team works on its robot Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, for the first night of Kent Hack Enough, a two-day Hackathon hosted by HacKSU on the fourth floor of the University Library.

Students to find new innovations in wearable technology at Fashion/Tech Hackathon

Kelsey Drumm January 28, 2015

Kent State’s second annual Fashion/Tech Hackathon will take place Jan 30 to Feb 1 in Rockwell Hall.This is the first and only collegiate Hackathon focused on developing wearable technology prototypes...