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COVID-19 Impact: How the pandemic changed the fashion industry
and last updated 2021-03-10 11:21:00-05
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. â While the pandemic is improving each day thanks to the vaccine, COVID-19 and its impact is still spreading.
One of the many industries not immune to the effects of COVID-19 was the fashion industry.
Granted, there was a major spike in online sales and a demand for comfortable âwork from homeâ clothes, but it wasnât enough to make up for the overall drop in sales and hit on the global economy.
âAlready in March and April, we were talking about how this was going to hit the fashion industry, so hard,â said Lori Faulkner, fashion studies chair and associate professor at Kendall College of Art and Design.
Feb. 17—Wright State University has agreed to hire Oliver Evans to serve as its interim provost until the school replaces the position. Douglas Leaman, who has served as the interim provost since December 2019, will leave Wright State on Feb. 21 for a new job as the dean of the College of Sciences at Auburn University at Montgomery. Evans has more than 30 years of administrative experience in .