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It was a night to remember in New York City as the future of the fashion industry came to life with the Kent State University School of Fashion's second fall fashion show.
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The leading fashion institutions, IFA Paris and the School of Fashion at Kent State University, are thrilled to announce their second creative collaboration during New York Fashion Week (NYFW)
Gargi Bhaduri, associate professor of fashion and merchandising, has her Entrepreneurial Leadership students and Supply Chain Management students dreaming big. Students spent their semesters researching and…
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Kent State University School of Fashion graduates, Phoebe Alicardi, Sabrina Fouitma Adjiri, and School of Architecture and Environmental Design graduate Jillian Eddy, had the unique opportunity to compete in the 2023 Hult Prize Challenge. Likened to the Nobel Peace Prize for…
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Jailynn Taylor didn’t originally set out to write about the fashion industry. She set out to design for it. But today, Taylor is living her dream working in the fast-paced world of the fashion industry as a contracted commerce and beauty writer for InStyle and Shape.com in New…
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School of Fashion Senior Lecturer, Professor Trista L. Grieder has had the unique opportunity to design and produce a garment, the Jade Gown, inspired by Diana Dempsey’s novel, “The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft.” Diana Dempsey wanted to create a stand-out visual…
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Kent State University School of Fashion Alumni, SUEDE, established the SUEDEsays™ Critics Award. This grant is a $1,000 cash award to a graduating senior Kent State University design student who presented an exemplary fashion collection at…
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Dr. Kim Hahn has been appointed Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Faculty Affairs in the College of the Arts, effective July 1, 2023.
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We are thrilled to announce that Frances Brunner, junior fashion design student, has made it to the finals of the Redress Design Award 2023, the world’s largest sustainable fashion design competition. This Award challenges emerging designers to create value from waste and design…
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The College of the Arts is pleased to announce that Dr. Mourad Krifa has been appointed as the Margaret Clark Morgan Director of the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, effective May 15. Professor Krifa joined the Kent State…