Article: The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Dottie Shinn column: KSU honors French designer.(Column)

Byline: Dorothy Shinn

Aug. 30--In connection with the opening of its new exhibit, Vionnet 2007, the Kent State University Museum presents two public lectures and a fashion show today in the museum's Stager Gallery in Rockwell Hall, East Main and South Lincoln streets on the KSU campus.

Talks will be given by Arnaud de Lummen, CEO of the House of Vionnet in Paris, and Betty Kirke, the award-winning author and Vionnet scholar.

Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) was a legendary French designer the first to exploit the bias cut who opened her house of couture in 1912 and revolutionized the world of fashion. Although she closed her house in 1939 at the ...

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