Fashion Meets the Botanicals

Highlights from the 2019 Kent State University Fashion Meets the Botanicals event held at the Cleveland Botanical Garden. This event is sponsored by the Kent State University School of Fashion Design and Merchandising and The Kent State University Museum. Held every March at the Cleveland Botanical Garden, Fashion Meets the Botanicals is an orchid-inspired fashion show produced by junior design students in in the incompararable surroundings of the Cleveland Botanical Gardent. The event brings together a botanically-inspired fabric and fashion arrangement that coincides with the Botanical Garden's "Orchid Mania" event. Students involved in this competition use an image of an orchid to create a computer-generated design from custom fabric, utilized the School's TechStyleLAB fabric printer to produce the fabric and then designed and constructed a garment using the fabric.