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COVID-19 effect on fashion’s graduating Class of 2020

Fashion students have been left reeling as the coronavirus shuts down their schools and wipes out all promise of graduate fashion shows and portfolio presentation events. As a snapshot of the larger global picture, FashionUnited interviews four students from Ohio’s Kent State University whose sense of anticlimax has replaced the camaraderie...

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Are graduate fashion shows really still relevant?

The tectonic plates of the fashion industry have shifted radically over the past five years, the status quo disrupted by see-now-buy-now, the demand for inclusivity, environmentalism, and labor abuse scandals. Graduate fashion shows, those glamorous finales to the hard slog of completing BFA and MFA programs, which are covered enthusiastically...