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![Student walking the runway during 2019 Annual Fashion Show.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/fashion%20show%20friday%20show%20hero_1.jpg?VersionId=GCI7MzFbqamymlab7EADRRnyn0pynjuN)
The School of Fashion announces the refashioning of the 2020 Fashion Show into Fashion Show 2.0. This completely virtual extravaganza will highlight the hard work of senior design and merchandising students, all of whom have been working toward this moment throughout…
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![Beading on a garment representing "culture" and a Kent State University patch on jeans representing the "counterculture" are included in the Kent State University Museum's "Culture/Counterculture" exhibition.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/Culture%20Counterculture%20web%20banner%202.jpg?VersionId=8z_D0ktGnqLI73YIBop9EJQGBAO.MQL2)
Almost 50 years ago, the shootings of Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard brought to a head the cultural divides that had split the nation. The Kent State University Museum’s exhibition, “Culture/Counterculture: Fashions of the 1960s and ’70s,” opening…
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![Shown is "Make Amerikkka Great Again" (2019), designed by Kent State University Fashion School student Colin Isaacs.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/WEB%20Cover%20page_wj.jpg?VersionId=iuuvh.Q_rU5tFcb1Ok18efxbBlXDcxh.)
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of May 4, 1970, when Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on Kent State University students protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine, students and faculty from Kent State’s School of…
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![Ohio Quilts Exhibit - Keckley Quilt](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/KeckleyQuiltSm.jpg?VersionId=p6VMmd_0Jdr1nJYSQZwH07dlYE.pluYX)
The Kent State University Museum’s newest exhibit, “Ohio Quilts”, which opens to the public July 19, features an eclectic group of historical quilts, that in many ways, reflects the history of Ohio dating back to the early nineteenth century.
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![Fiber art from Focus: Fiber 2019 KSU Museum exhibition](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/article%20banner_web%203.jpg?VersionId=zAZ8kMLpWS4SNm3V0DJ58n7GZs_9VLB7)
The national juried art exhibition, Focus: Fiber 2019 is heading to the Kent State University Museum next month, marking the first new exhibit for the Museum in 2019.
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![Fashion graduate students posing with Target representatives and Dr. Jihyun Kim during the Graduate Target Case Study](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/article/target%20case%20study_web.jpg?VersionId=iey08N2im4vkrmjdQ9s.JUW5eQ3sgXQh)
In December, a group of graduate students from the Kent State Fashion School’s Master of Fashion Industry Studies (M.F.I.S) program, received the opportunity to develop strategic solutions for Target as part of a case study in Fashion School Store director, Dr. Jihyun Kim’s,…
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![Kent State students model original designs created by fashion school students during the school’s 2018 Spring Fashion School. Kent State students model original designs created by fashion school students during the school’s 2018 Spring Fashion School.](https://www-s3-live.kent.edu/s3fs-root/s3fs-public/Fashion1-ka.jpg?VersionId=X5ubTtsZCYi4gAXJj6bNqv9GrA_YviPv)
Kent State University’s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising is once again ranked high among the nation’s elite, according to Fashion-schools.org.
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Countless hours of planning, sewing, stitching and preparation went in the Kent State University Fashion School’s 2018 Annual Fashion Show, “FS2: Alchemy”. The 36th annual event took place on April 27 and 28, in Rockwell Hall on Kent State’s campus. Models strutted the runway…