Fashion Merchandising

Omar Salam, Sukeina

Global. Sophisticated. Highly respected. Those words describe Omar Salam, founder and creative director of the global fashion house Sukeina. The fashion designer will make a special trip from the runway to Kent State University’s Rockwell Hall as Salam has been named the 2023 inductee of the university’s School of Fashion Hall of Fame. ...

Honors College student Kenzie Sklar lines up to throw the ball during a lacrosse home game versus Central Michigan.

In recent decades, the game of lacrosse has grown in popularity, especially among the high school and college population. In spring of 2018, the Kent State women’s lacrosse team  became the first new women’s Division I sport to be added to the Kent State University roster since women’s golf was added nearly two decades prior. A...

Gabriella Humes sitting in a park in Canton, Ohio.

Gabriella Humes is a senior Honors College student graduating with a double-major in fashion merchandising and finance. Gabriella has been very successful at Kent State, completing an internship and three study away programs. However, one of Gabriella’s proudest accomplishments is recently completing a Senior Honors Thesis that combined bo...

U.S. Supranatural Contest 2017

Angela Ritossa is ready to go global. The fashion merchandising student, in Kent State University’s Fashion School, is getting ready to compete in the Miss U.S. Supranational pageant later this month, with hopes of moving onto the Miss Supranational in Poland. The pageant focuses on natural beauty and grace, specifically glamour, fashion ...

Kent State University student Robin Bonatesta, a junior computer science and fashion merchandising major from Branchburg, N.J., has been named a University Innovation Fellow by the National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter). The program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and directed by Stanford Univ...