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Kent State's NYC Portfolio Event Highlights School’s Global Appeal

The Kent State Portfolio Event held in its NYC campus is an annual invite to industry professionals to come view the portfolios and talk to the top graduates of the school’s fashion design and merchandising programs. But these students are not in the habit of waiting like wallflowers to be asked to dance. One graduate had to leave fifteen...

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Kent State Portfolio Showcase

A selection of this year’s graduates from Kent State, Ohio, traveled this week to Manhattan for their annual two-day Portfolio Showcase event. Invited guests from the industry interviewed and took business cards from menswear, womenswear and merchandising students who, with school now firmly behind them, are eagerly eyeing their next step. “I...

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Kent State students make it to Beijing Fashion Week

East meets west is a constant inspiration for fashion students, but the theme took on a distinctly personal angle for 6 students from Ohio’s Kent State University when they were invited to show their senior collections alongside 4 students from Taiwan’s Shih Chien University, and approximately 15 students from Beijing Institute of Fashion...

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Celebrating 10 Years of Kent State’s NYC Studio

Kent State regularly lists among the top five fashion schools in the U.S. yet it is not situated in a fashion hub, nor even a throbbing metropolis. It is located in the midst of the pastoral landscape of Northeast Ohio. While the students can currently enjoy the campus’s magnificent display of Fall colors they have to drive some distance to...

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Celebrating 10 Years of Kent State’s NYC Studio

Kent State regularly lists among the top five fashion schools in the U.S. yet it is not situated in a fashion hub, nor even a throbbing metropolis. It is located in the midst of the pastoral landscape of Northeast Ohio. While the students can currently enjoy the campus’s magnificent display of Fall colors they have to drive some distance to...

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