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Fashioning the Future: Students apply skills through internships
December 5, 2019 | Tags: Student Success, School of Design, Fashion
This past summer, 23 students in fashion design and product development, fashion communication and fashion marketing and management completed internships all over the United States and in Europe.

Students bring home top awards, inspiration from National College Media Convention
November 5, 2019 | Tags: Student Success, College & Campus, School of Design, English/Creative Writing, Fashion
A group of proud and tired students gathered in a Stephens College computer lab on Monday with President Dianne Lynch to celebrate, eat some cake, and get back to work on the next issue of Stephens Life.

Stephens Life named Best of Show at National College Media Convention
November 4, 2019 | Tags: Student Success, College & Campus, School of Design, Fashion
Beating out hundreds of student magazines across the country, Stephens Life[/academics/programs-of-study/sod/stephens-life/] received a Pacemaker Award and was named Best of Show at the National College Media Convention in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31-Nov. 3.

Stephens welcomes Designer of the Year Brandon Maxwell
October 18, 2019 | Tags: College & Campus, School of Design, Fashion
On Oct. 16, Brandon Maxwell, a 2019 Project Runway judge and 2019 Council of Fashion Designers of America Womenswear Designer of the Year, visited the Stephens College campus as part of the Jeannene Booher Fashion Lecture Series.

Jeannene Booher Fashion Lecture Series to host Brandon Maxwell at Stephens College
October 7, 2019 | Tags: College & Campus, School of Design, Fashion
The Stephens College School of Design will host Brandon Maxwell, an American fashion designer, television personality, director and photographer, as the next speaker in the Jeannene Booher Fashion Lecture Series. The presentation begins at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the Kimball Ballroom of Lela Raney Wood Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Stephens Life honored by Associated Collegiate Press
October 3, 2019 | Tags: Student Success, Alumnae Achievement, School of Design, Fashion
The Fall 2018 issue of Stephens Life has been recognized by the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) for having some of the best designs among collegiate publications in the United States and Canada this year. The magazine as a whole was named one of 24 Pacemaker finalists in the feature/general interest division.

Historic Costume Gallery explores role of fashion in women’s suffrage
October 2, 2019 | Tags: College & Campus, School of Design, Fashion
The Stephens College Costume Museum and Research Library presents its fall 2019 exhibit, “Suffrage: What’s Fashion Got To Do With It?,” on Saturday, Aug. 24 through Dec. 13 at the Historic Costume Gallery, mezzanine of Lela Raney Wood Hall. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Stephens designers featured at New York Fashion Week
September 13, 2019 | Tags: Student Success, Alumnae Achievement, School of Design, Fashion
(L-to-R) Catherine Hake ’19; Samantha Knaust ’20; Stephanie Carlo, assistant professor of fashion; Rose Carter ’20 and Jillian Turner ’20 traveled to New York for Fashion Week this month.

Wedman Alfaro receives scholarship from Columbia Women’s Network
September 10, 2019 | Tags: Student Success, School of Design, Fashion
Aurola Wedman Alfaro ’20 takes women’s leadership seriously. In addition to her studies in fashion communication and digital filmmaking at Stephens, she is the visual information intern at Truman VA hospital, the editor-in-chief of Stephens Life, diversity chair of the Student Government Association and vice president of scholarship for Phi Theta Kappa.

Pedersen rejoins Stephens as visiting artist
August 29, 2019 | Tags: Faculty Excellence, School of Creative & Performing Arts, Theatre, Fashion
Matthew Pedersen, a costume designer, wearable artist and stylist based in Brooklyn, New York, has returned to Stephens College as a visiting artist for the 2019-20 academic year. He will teach courses in the B.F.A. in Costume Design.
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