From March 6 - May 12 the exhibit entitled, "The Effect of Mindfulness Sensation" is up in the Gustafson Gallery in the Gifford Building on campus, which showcases the work of students in Design and Merchandising.
The Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising at Colorado State University recently acquired a collection of garments from American designer Nancy Johnson. Representing almost two decades of Johnson’s design work from the late 1970s through the 1990s, the collection reflects evolutions in American culture and changes in the manufacturing of fashionable dress, namely the shift to overseas production. Many of Johnson’s pieces were made in India, Pakistan, and Hong Kong, where she sourced readymade textiles such as embroidered tablecloths to rework into garments.
“Thrift Style” is one of three exhibits in the Spring 2023 collection at the Avenir Museum at CSU. The others are “Nostalgia Mode: Fashion and Sentimentality in the 1970s” and the latest “New Threads” donated to the Avenir.
On Sept. 28, the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising hosted an afternoon with the Le Cercle Français, the French Club at Colorado State University.
A fashionably fancy throng gathered at Colorado State University’s Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising on Friday evening, Nov. 18, to celebrate student apparel design creativity inspired by the mid-20th-century American designer Richard Blackwell (1922-2008).
This full-length beige silk undergown with black lace overlay is just one of almost 25,000 opportunities for learning that the Avenir Museum holds in its collection.
Cameron Thomas, a first-year student majoring in apparel and merchandising at Colorado State University, derived great motivation from his experiences at New York Fashion Week.
Working in the Department of Design and Merchandising at Colorado State University, Paula Alaszkiewicz seeks to shine a light on the past and expand the program in the future.
Mr. Blackwell often thought several steps ahead of the industry. Including pockets in a day dress while not interrupting the design lines is just one example of his forward-thinking design aesthetic. The tie at the neck floats down from the collar mimicking the flutter of a butterfly wing. The angular shape of the tie contrasts with the curvilinear lines of the print reinforcing the bold design lines of the dress.
The three exhibits in Colorado State University’s Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising’s Fall 2022 exhibits celebrate the fashion and fragility of clothing and the process the museum undertakes to become keepers of such objects.