Designer of the Week: Brandford Kudowor

 Suc-cess: the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect or fame. If this is what the world considers success, Merriam Webster might want to rethink its definition.  When Brandford Kudowor considers what success means, it’s more about the journey rather than the destination. If that’s the case, Kudowor is overly qualified in the success category. Not only […]

Apparel Design Students Showcase Work

With so much stress circulating in the sewing lab, you could cut the tension with a knife. “Things are pretty hectic right now,” said an anxious senior designer, Hanna Clegg. “There is so much going on, it’s like the deadlines of all deadlines. We need to get all of our final looks prepared and time […]

Raider Red’s One-Act Play Spectacular

Texas Tech University’s Department of Theatre & Dance brought back its annual “Raider Red’s One-Act Play Spectacular” on Monday, with five new short plays written and directed by students. RROAPS provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to take an idea and work it all the way to becoming a realized production. Sometimes dark, […]

Gilchrist Navigates New York Fashion Week

To make it in the fashion industry, you have to have a thick skin — a really thick skin, or so I’ve been told. If you’ve ever seen the “Devil Wears Prada,” you get where I’m coming from. For many, this job description of being under constant stress and responsibility is not their cup of […]

Designer Of The Week

If you take a look at her music playlist you’ll most likely see a lot of The xx, The Strokes, and Radiohead.No, she’s not a musician part time, nor is it one of her hobbies. When junior apparel design and manufacturing major, Lisa Hon, gets an idea for a design, music is most likely the […]

Make It Work!

As she walked around the room it was obvious this wasn’t her first rodeo. With only 30 minutes to grab supplies and seven and a half hours to complete an entire outfit, it was amazing to watch not only her pieces of fabric turn into something I would buy on the rack, but her competitors’ […]

Fresh Off The Runway

  Is your week dragging like molasses? Does your motivation feel like it’s moving at a glacier pace? Have no fear, New York Fashion Week is here. Take your mind off that paper you have to write or that tedious math problem you’ve been working on for five days. Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week  has been going […]

Designer Of The Week

After taking a career test in high school, a hopeful designer quickly learned her future dreams were slim to none. With a 5 per cent rate of success in the fashion industry, she said she remembers shrugging off the statistic like it was nothing to be concerned about. “I was always really artsy, and I […]

Designer Of The Week

With eight of her clothing designs already being sold in stores, 21-year-old Caitlin Moore said her recent success with Belk clothing is still surreal beyond belief. “My family and I went to the store while I was home last and to see them hanging on the rack with my picture next to it, it was […]