Fashion holds annual Senior Showcase May 2

April 28, 2025 - DENTON - Fashion Design and Merchandising will hold its annual Senior Fashion Showcase on Friday, May 2, 2025, on the first floor of Blagg-Huey Library.

The show is the capstone event for seniors in the Division of Fashion Design & Merchandising and features a runway show and retail market.

The pop-up shops open at 5 p.m., followed by the runway show at 6:30. Tickets are available online at $7 for standing, $12 for seated, and $50 for a VIP bundle.

This year's show is called Chateau Bordeaux, an idea influenced by the return of Fashion's trip to the heart of the design world. TWU will take 30 students to Paris in May. It's the first such trip since the COVID pandemic. A trip was planned a year ago but plans were scuttled by the Summer Olympic games in Paris.

"It's a class students can choose for an elective," said Anna Magie, PhD, assistant professor and division head. "It's only a weeklong, but they see all of the fashion sites within a week. The Louvre has an exhibit this year they've never had before called Louvre Couture, an exhibit 200 years in the making."

The show taps into Fashion's Event Planning, Production Techniques and Retail Product Management courses, and involves students from all aspects of fashion, from the senior designers whose clothes will be walked down the runway to the senior merchandising students who design the retail market shops and concepts. Juniors handle event planning, sophomores operate the retail market, and freshmen volunteer and assist where needed.

"All senior students taking fashion design and merchandising will be showing their work," said Remy Odukomaiya, MFA and lecturer. "It's good for the department because it shows a more rounded view of what we do, that we don't only make garments. We are also in the business of fashion."

"It's blending design and merchandising, working together as it will happen in industry," Magie said. "Designers and merchandisers are all interconnected. That's one of the great things about TWU that other universities don't do. A lot of other schools just design in one program, merchandise in another, maybe even fashion marketing in another. But we're all intertwined here, so I think it helps students when they graduate."

Among this year's seniors are Gladys Salvador and Keishawna Wheaton who are earning dual degrees in fashion merchandising and fashion design.

For more information, visit the Senior Fashion Showcase website.

Senior Fashion Merchandising students
Ashlyn Everett
Rosemary Fam
Samantha Grives
Chandler Johnson
Eva Keirns
Monica Rogers
Lissette Salazar
Gladys Salvador
Carola Tonche
Kimberly Valdez
Keishawna Wheaton

Senior Fashion Design students
Samantha Ceja
Krystal Ester
Giovonna Garza
Cindy Gonzalez
Julia Nguyen
Boluwatife Olabanji
Sabrina Rodriguez
Gladys Salvador
Keishawna Wheaton
Gabriela Williams Ochoa
Jennifer Zimmer

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