2017

October
- At the Contemporary Craft Show
  
  October 30, 2017
  Recent work by from our talented students, alumni, faculty and staff will be on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's 41^st annual Contemporary Craft Show, November 9-12 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
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- Hidden Treasures: Drexel’s Mysterious Olivia Turner Hats
  
  October 12, 2017
  
  Two local teenagers researched the identity of a hat designer during an internship this past summer with three of Drexel’s collections on fashion, art and medical history.
  
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August
- We wear culture
  
  August 10, 2017
  
  The Robert & Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (FHCC) has collaborated with Google and hundreds of world renowned cultural institutions to bring 3,000 years of the world's fashion together in the largest virtual exhibition of style. The "We wear culture" project by Google Arts & Culture is a collaboration between the FHCC and over 180 institutions from New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, S ão Paulo and around the world.
  
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June
- Google’s New Virtual Exhibition Includes Iconic Pieces from Drexel’s Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection
 
 June 09, 2017
 
 Three-thousand years of the world’s fashion is being brought together in the largest virtual exhibition of style. The “We wear culture” project, by Google Arts & Culture, is a collaboration with Drexel University’s <a href="http://drexel.edu/foxcollection/">Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection</a> and more than 180 renowned cultural institutions from New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, São Paulo and others around the world. 
 
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May
- Westphal Mini Grants
  
  May 09, 2017
  
  Support for this College’s faculty’s creative and scholarly research is vital now more than ever in our time of diminishing governmental, foundation, and corporate support. The Westphal College’s Mini Grants and Creativity Awards program is dedicated to doing just that.
  
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- Ken Downing: Fashion Forecast
  
  May 09, 2017
  
  Ken Downing, the Senior Vice President and Global Fashion Ambassador of Neiman Marcus, is no stranger to the Westphal College. For the past four years, Downing has visited at the start of each spring to share his behind-the-runway forecast of the year’s coveted fashion trends, while giving an overview of the top shows in Paris, London, Milan, and New York to our many dedicated followers of fashion.
  
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February
- New Fashion Technologies
  
  February 13, 2017
  The Fashion Design Program has recently acquired the Digital Clothing Suite (DCS), several new state of the art 3D fashion design computer programs from Professor Hyeong-Seok Ko, Director of the Digital Clothing Center in the Graphic and Media Laboratory, Seoul National University, and the Physan company. DCS is utilized by the industry to create and simulate fashion design on a virtual model, creating savings in costs and freeing up time for designers to explore and create.
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