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Ir-resist-ible: Tie-dye methods headline Spring 2024 Avenir Museum exhibits
The Avenir Museum’s Spring 2024 offerings include exhibitions on international tie-dyed textiles, whimsical designer handbags and a rare look at the hidden insides of clothing.
Fashion FUNdamentals tailors confidence and skill in STEM and creative design
Fashion FUNdamentals, a summer enrichment program sponsored by CSU's Department of Design and Merchandising, seeks to engage students in STEM through hands-on activities tied to fashion design and product development.
New Avenir exhibition features clothing worn by tennis legends Serena Williams, Billie Jean King
CSU's Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising is presenting the traveling exhibition Courting Style: Women’s Tennis Fashion from June 20 until Oct. 20. Two other exhibits – Kindred Keepsakes: Honoring the Heirlooms and Heritage of James Galanos and Snapshots: Six Curatorial Concepts – opened on May 23.
Apparel design and empowerment live on through CSU alumna’s memorial legacy
Kathryn T. Bohannon pursued graduate studies in apparel design at CSU. Her husband, David Folkes sustains her legacy of empowerment and self-discovery through gifts in her memory.
Classic upcycling, Bicentennial spirit and new threads comprise Spring 2023 Avenir Museum exhibits
“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.
Wide Open: Product development seniors showcase inclusive cotton garment designs in capstone projects
Students in their final year of the product development concentration in the Department of Design and Merchandising showcase their capstone projects at an event at the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising. Their projects focused on adaptive apparel and awards were provided through a competitive grant from Cotton Incorporated.
Memories sewn into garments: Avenir’s fall exhibits honor history, research, innovation
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.
Fashion FUNdamentals builds STEM skills and confidence in style
CSU's Department of Design and Merchandising welcomed over 30 middle-schoolers to gain confidence in the STEM disciplines through fashion at the two-week Fashion FUNdamentals STEM enrichment camp.
The texture of generosity: The 2022 Spirit of Philanthropy Award recipient
Linda L. Carlson (M.S., ’88), curator emerita of the Avenir Museum and retired instructor in the Department of Design and Merchandising, was chosen as the 2022 recipient of the Spirit of Philanthropy Award.
Avenir Museum collection feature: Elegant Scaasi Ensemble
This ensemble from Scaasi's 1981 fall collection is the embodiment of his unique ready-to-wear aesthetic.