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Yayra Tamakloe

Client Profile: Yayra Tamakloe

Have you met Yayra? If not, you should!   Yayra is a Kent State alumna (2019, BFA Fashion Design) and has been an exuberant client of LaunchNET for over 2 years, having explored multiple venture ideas and placed in the 2018 Idea Olympics as well as earning a Venture Fund award f…

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Client Profile: Alexandra Reich

You might call Alli Reich an overachiever... and you wouldn't be wrong! Her story encompasses a true entrepreneurial journey of exploring her passions. Lucky for us she took some time to tell us about it. Tell us about Alexanda. I grew up in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, …

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Client Profile: Chinonso Aladi

Chinonso is a now-graduate of the Kent State Fashion School and hails from Nigeria, which is the inspiration for her fashion line that incorporates traditional African fabrics into modern pieces. While researching production possibilities for the full line, she has been designing and sewing custom p…

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Kent State Museum Exhibit Considers Assistive Technologies in Fashion Context

The Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ Museum will offer a fresh, design-focused survey of assistive and adaptive devices in an upcoming exhibition. ā€œ(dis)ABLED BEAUTY: The Evolution of Beauty, Disability and Abilityā€ runs July 29, 2016, to March 12, 2017, in the museum’s Stager and Blum Galleries. The exhibit i…

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Kent Campus

Kent State Fashion School Hall of Fame to Induct Josie Natori

The Fashion School at Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ is pleased to announce that designer and business leader Josie Natori will be inducted into the Fashion School Hall of Fame on April 30. The ceremony will take place as part of the Kent State Fashion School’s Annual Fashion Show, presented the same evening…

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The NYC Studio Hosts an Evening of Celebration

In the spring of 2006, The Fashion School’s NYC Studio opened to its first group of students and on Thursday Oct. 29, the NYC Studio hosted an Evening of Celebration in anticipation of the Studio’s upcoming 10-year anniversary. The evening also celebrated the newly created NYC Studio Director’s Scho…

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NYC Studio Tote Bags for Sale at The Fashion School Store

NYC Studio tote bags are now available! Visit The Fashion School Store to purchase one today!

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It Looks Like a Necklace, but Plays Movies Like a Theater

The big screen is getting smaller – so small in fact, you can wear it around your neck. Margarita Benitez, assistant professor in Āé¶¹¹ū¶³ā€™s School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, worked with TinyCircuits to create a necklace that can actually play a movie and more. Read more abo…

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Vignette, Volume 1, Cover

Spring '15 NYC Studio Students Launch First Volume of Vignette

During the Spring ’15 semester, NYC Studio students launched the first volume of Vignette, a publication written, designed and produced by fashion students. Fashion in the Media students and professor, Dimitri Koumbis, were inspired to create this quarterly journal after completing three-spread conc…

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