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Professional Dress to Impress: CLDC Etiquette Mixer

Professional Dress to Impress: CLDC Etiquette Mixer

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor April 16, 2025

On April 8, the Founders Ballrooms hosted a networking dinner and fashion show where students could practice their networking skills and refine their professional presentation at social events. The Career...

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Student thoughts on Coachella 2025

Daniela Cesario, Features Reporter April 16, 2025

Coachella 2025 transformed the desert into a vibrant runway, with festival-goers showcasing a spectrum of styles, from minimalist chic to bold, to crazy belts and fashion statements. The scene sparked...

Chaioning Su in November 2023 at a studio in Taipei, Taiwan during her interview for a documentary titled Disinflation: The Invisible War. 

Photo courtesy of Chiaoning Su.

Chiaoning Su: How fashion choices can alter a politician’s public image

Madison Siewert, Contributor October 23, 2024

With her upbringing around politics back home in Taiwan, Professor Dr. Chiaoning Su says fashion choices can easily become a crisis for politicians.  With the U.S. presidential election around the...

Trey Townsend. Photo courtesy of OU Men's Basketball

Inside the pre-game style of OU’s men’s basketball team

Olivia Chiappelli, Editor-in-Chief March 20, 2024

As Oakland University's men’s basketball team makes their way to the NCAA Tournament, it’s only right that the spotlight shines bright on them this week — and why can’t that spotlight include...

The fall fashion of OU

The fall fashion of OU

Olivia Chiappelli, Editor-in-Chief September 20, 2023

With the new school year beginning and fall quickly approaching, students on Oakland University's campus are signaling this autumnal shift with their wardrobes. After weeks of uncomfortably scouring campus,...

Summer fashion picks to try this season

Olivia Chiappelli, Editor-in-Chief May 18, 2022

As this year’s summer season approaches and people start trading in their knits for linens, the fashion world as we know it is in for its yearly rebrand. You might be asking — “what will be the new...

New Netflix documentary: "White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch" exposing all the scandalous brand's conduct.

Thin, white and young: The culture of exclusion of Abercrombie & Fitch

Leticia Cezário Santos, Marketing Director May 18, 2022

On April 19, 2022, Netflix launched the documentary White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch. Featuring interviews with dozens of former employees, executives and models, the Netflix exposé...

Zendaya's Valentino rendition at the 2022 Oscars award ceremony

The Oscars 2022: best and worst dressed

Olivia Chiappelli, Editor-in-Chief April 6, 2022

Well over a week has passed since this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, so I have had time to truly marinate my thoughts and opinions and now feel ready to express some hot takes — on fashion. Don’t...

Kim Kardashian's black morph suit at the September 2021 Met Gala

The Met Gala 2022: Last year’s redemption arc?

Olivia Chiappelli, Editor-in-Chief March 30, 2022

The first Monday in May is like Christmas for any fashion lover with a Twitter account. The Met Gala — the annual fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institution — is officially...

Streetwear designer Michael Sana with Detroit Pistons forward Isaiah Stewart.

People of OU: Streetwear fashion designer Michael Sana

Alexander Gustanski, Senior Reporter March 23, 2022

Creating high-quality clothing that generates real change is designer Michael Sana’s personal mission. In Jan 2021, Sana used his interests in sports, fashion and marketing to create Sana Detroit,...

2018 School Supply List for Fall Fashion

Alexa Caccamo, Copy Editor September 5, 2018

Welcome back, Golden Grizzlies! It has been three months since walking the grounds of Oakland University and it is time to get down to business. For starters, we are a few weeks away from the fall season...

Staying safe in cold weather

By Parris Page, staff intern November 8, 2015

With the weather being extremely unpredictable, it’s important to know how to adjust to the cold when it hits. While last week we soaked up the sun and enjoyed 70-degree weather, true Michiganders know...

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