2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Creative Design: Undergraduate
Coffee-Stained Music Sheets
Georgi Abdalla and Angela Uriyo
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Refashioned in Bloom
Margaret Lily Watkins and Fatma Baytar
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Culture
sust`AINAble Fashion: Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) Fashion Designers Sustainablity Efforts
Andrew Reilly, Jordan Antonio and Young Jin Bahng
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Bangladeshi Cultural Heritage and Sustainability: Upcycling the Bararasi Saree
Sadia Tarannum and Alexandra L. Howell Abolo
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
From Persona to Purchase: Deion Sanders and the Power of Personal Branding in Driving Retail Sales
Eulanda A. Sanders
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Taking Up Space in Style: Chef Coats as Sites of Gender Negotiation and Feminist Resistance in Culinary Environments
Andra Chisholm and Eulanda A. Sanders
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
The Influence of Jim Crow on Black Women's Luxury Fashion Shopping Experiences: A Position Paper and Call to Action
Nia Allen and Eulanda A. Sanders
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Empowerment or Exploitation? Exploring the Dual Impact of Racial Capitalism on Black Women in Fashion Entrepreneurship
Uvana Doran and Nancy J. Hodges
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Non-African Perceptions of Traditional African Fashion
Elsie Rebecca Osei and Megan Strickfaden
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Retro-Acculturation and Identity Expression of Later Generations of Mexican Americans
Danielle Adriana Rodriguez and Yoo-Kyoung Seock
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Analyzing Dress, Identity, and Beauty Beliefs and Practices of East and Southeast Asian Mothers and Daughters Shared Through Matrilineal Inheritance
Cydni Meredith Robertson and Caroline Kopot
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Strategies for Inclusive Outdoor Recreation and Adaptive Apparel for People with Paralysis: Exploring Identity, Belonging, and Appearance Management
Kristen Deanne Morris, Kayna Hobbs-Murphy, Kerri McBee-Black and Lida Aflatoony
2026-01-17 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Curatorial Exhibition Scholarship
Harlem Noire: Fashion Movement, Moment & Memory
Dyese Matthews, Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp and Denise Nicole Green
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Tiger's Leap: Fashion Past, Present, Future
Paula Alaszkiewicz
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
The Making of Barkcloth – Place, Gender, and Trans-Local Community
Iris Yiqun Luo, Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp, Renata M. Leitão and Denise Nicole Green
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Sounding Fashion
Shawkay Ottmann, Apurva Pandey, Zeyu Liu and Denise Nicole Green
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Design and Product Development
Beyond the Sketch: Exploring Emerging Practices of Generative AI Use in Fashion Design
Yuan Li, Xiao Tong, Brian Taylor, Jin Su and Melanie Carrico
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Modular KnitToile: Leveraging Technology to Elevate Creativity in Knitwear Design
Casey Tyler and Adriana Gorea
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Integrating AI Image Generation in an Introductory Design Course
Colleen G Pokorny, Bolanle Dahunsi, Adam Vester and Marianne Dickson
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Adaptive Apparel Needs: Expanding the Functional, Expressive and Aesthetic Model
Melanie Carrico, Jin Su, Md. Hasan Sheikh, Xiao Tong, Brian Taylor and Hadal Hammour
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Better CrossFit Apparel for Women: Employing the FEA Model to Meet Performance, Psychological Empowerment, Identity Expression, and Aesthetic Needs
Lutong Chen and Ann Marie Marie Fiore
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Developing a Zero-Waste Pattern for Healthcare Scrubs: A Case Study
Ashley Rougeaux-Burnes, Colleen A Moretz, Sheri Dragoo, Melanie Carrico, Ellen McKinney and Casey R. Stannard
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Evaluating Pocket Needs of Healthcare Professionals for Application in a Scrub Design
Colleen A Moretz, Ashley Rougeaux-Burnes, Melanie Carrico, Ellen McKinney, Sheri Dragoo and Casey R. Stannard
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Content Analysis of Online Reviews to Understand the Functional, Expressive, and Aesthetic Needs of Period Underwear for Women with Disabilites
Lauren E Lansdell and Jia Wu
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Apparel Therapy for Performance of Menstrual Hygiene Management: Developing Functional Period Underwear for Women with Physical Disabilities
Jia Wu, Lauren E Lansdell and Kerri McBee-Black
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Inclusive Sportswear Design: A User-Centered Approach to Enhance Taekwondo Uniforms for Hijabi Athletes
Joud Asil, Wijdan A. Tawfiq and Rania Debes
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
“It Felt Like a Hug”: The Wear Testing of a Weighted Champion Hoodie to AssessComfortability, Fit, and Mobility
Kerri McBee-Black and Jia Wu
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Feasibility of Industrial Production using the Carrico Zero-Waste Banded Grading Technique
Casey R. Stannard, Sheri Dragoo, Ellen McKinney, Melanie Carrico, Ashley Rougeaux-Burnes and Colleen A Moretz
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Designing Apparel for Post Caesarean Recovery Emphasizing Comfort and Wellbeing
Eman Alahmadi, Wijdan A. Tawfiq and Rania Debes
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Developing Adaptive Apparel for Autistic Children Grounded in the Perspectives of Caregivers
Omniah Almorshed, Rania Debes and Wijdan A. Tawfiq
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Sustainable Smart Adaptive Health-Sync Apparel for Diabetics with Mobility Disability
SM Rakifull Alam, FARHANA MOMOTAZ and Juyoung Lee
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Culturally Responsive Maternity Apparel for Saudi Mothers: A User-Centered Design Approach
Rehab Reda, Wijdan A. Tawfiq and Rania Debes
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
A Wearable Smart Healthcare System for Wheelchair Users: Functional Clothing with Embedded Temperature Sensors and Heating Elements
Shiyu Chen, Miao Yu and Chuanlan Chuanlan Liu
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Collecting Quantitative Wear Test Data to Analyze the Lasting Effects Experienced by People with Disabilities Wearing Adaptive Apparel
Chukwuma Nweje Udezeh
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
From Classroom to Commercialization: A Conceptual Framework for Wearable Soft-good Product Innovation
Bahar Hashemian Esfahani and Rachel Jean Eike
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Grading Runners: A Pilot Study to Reverse Engineer Patterns to Understand the Sizing of a Population
Susan L Sokolowski, Jacob Searcy, Anish Dulal, Chris Stone and KJ Fightmaster
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Developing a Novel PPE Turnout Coat with an Embedded Active Cooling System and Evaluating Firefighters’ Performance Satisfaction
Myoungok Kim, Ashley Kubley, Ione Wu, Chris Cooley, Qichen Fang, Prakash Giri, Mark Schulz and Vesselin Shanov
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Design and Evaluation of a Novel Hamstring Compression Sleeve for Female NCAA Athletes: An Exploratory Study
Adriana Gorea and Sarah Megivern
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Ice Hockey Elbow Pad Design Tailored for Female Athletes
Huieun Do and Huiju Park
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Bridging the Gap: Developing Custom Dress Forms for Wheelchair Users
Pimpawan Kumphai, Kaleigh Mae Slot, Lauren Agnew, Ian R. Mull, JoDell Heroux and Nigar Sultana
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Synergizing Wearable Technology and Augmented Reality for Astronaut Optimization; A Diverse Team Approach
Sheri Dragoo, Advika Govindarajan, Caleb Strout, Collin Strout, Ishaan Patel, Maya Piotrowicz, Patrick Lasiter and Isaac Gonzalez
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Gender-Specific Fit Challenges in Firefighter Turnout Gear: A Proportional Analysis
Kim Phung Nguyen and Huiju Park
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future
Using Precedent Analysis, Interviews, Archetypes, and Design Sprints to Inform Designing
Kanishka Kumar, Millie Yates, Sandra Tullio Pow and Cesar Marquez-Chin
2025-12-18 2025 • Gateway to a Brighter Future