Design and Merchandising Wide Open In the fall semester of 2022, the second annual student showcase took place, a collaborative event between the Product Development Capstone course, IIL, and the Avenir Museum of Design and Merchandising. The showcase, titled "Wide Open," spotlighted innovative and inclusively designed apparel concepts.

EVELYN’S aims to help women 75+ in the early stages of Alzheimer’s in their everyday lives. RFID tags are utilized in all the garments which link up to the EVELYN’S app that has a checklist that tracks daily movements and alerts the users to where they have to be or what they have done that day. This helps with the memory loss that comes with Alzheimer’s.

Jian in Chinese means simple and light, which defines the line’s purpose: to give people who wear adaptive clothing more convenient and quick dressing options.

The main objective of Desires & Rears Adaptive line is to serve people with limb differences through functional and aesthetically pleasing designs while making it easier to access their prosthetics through invisible closures, innovative fabric choices, better mobility in joint areas, and integrated technologies.

Yuli Adaptive is a lingerie and undergarments brand for women that live with a physical disability. These clothing items make women feel empowered and confident in themselves. Yuli means “beautiful rain” in mandarin. Not everyone can see the beauty in the rain, just as some people cannot see what makes women feel beautiful. Yuli adaptive is here to make all women feel beautiful.

The purpose of my capstone project is to provide fashionable streetwear products that can be worn by fashionable young men that love streetwear but struggle with sensory processing disorders in their adulthood. Sena’s Sensory Apparel stems from my last name which coincidentally also acts as an abbreviation for (Sen)sory (A)pparel.

Research suggests that sensory processing disorders primarily lies in children excluding a large community of adults facing sensory issues daily, disrupting the way their brain receives messages through stimuli. The intent of this collection is grounded in fulfilling the gaps in adaptive apparel for young men through a line of jackets incorporating innovative,  sensory-friendly, features and accents.

The purpose of this project was to create an adaptive apparel line for a growing under-served market. Unorthodox strives to meet the needs of Transgender men from all walks of life while taking their aesthetic, fit, and silhouette needs into account. Unorthodox welcomes nonconforming lifestyles and ideals, while encouraging our consumers to continue to break out of the box society has put us in