- Threads is a student run fashion event that showcases the designs of our fashion design students.

- So it was called Threads Fashion Show, Cosmic Odyssey, Fashion's Final Frontier.

We had 24 designers participate in the show with 29 collections.

So a few designers doubled up and did two collections.

- Really is a beautiful merger in our programs.

So between the fashion design students as well as our fashion merchandising students.

So the fashion design students creating the collections, you know, putting together the garments.

And then our merchandising students really are responsible for the production.

How are they going to get this in front of our guests?

How are they going to create an event to show that not only highlights the student designs, but also highlights the production and the merchandising side?

- There's not a lot of opportunities, especially in Michigan or just in Mount Pleasant, to really get that true like high fashion runway experience and a lot of people desire it.

It's really fun and it's creative and it's just a very immersive experience that truly makes you feel like you're in a professional runway production.

- Part of our initiative in Threads is to constantly evolve, to think of new ways to grow.

What we're seeing is this idea of embracing different academic programs across campus and also to be more inclusive to, you know, invite different people to the table to make sure that they're heard as well as represented, not only in production but also during show day.

- All of those different collaborations just came with us wanting to be innovative and to see more change within our show.

So in order to do that, it took a lot of collaboration with other people and a lot of different people involved in those different aspects.

Whether it was with our BCA students planning the livestream or with the disability studies students and the adaptive wear models, getting them accustomed to fittings with their designers, things like that.

But overall it was really great just seeing everyone come together for our show.

People that weren't necessarily fashion students.

It's really fun to see them get excited about a fashion show 'cause it's something they're not used to doing.

And I always think it's so cool that I was able to plan a huge fashion show for class credit.

Not many people can say that they can do that and that's what I love about my major in the FMD program here at CMU, is it gives you those hands-on experiences.

I mean how could you not love school when you're doing this?