According to University of North Texas alumnus/fashion designer Michael Faircloth,
“The Fashion Design Program at the University of North Texas prepares students for a career as a fashion designer, illustrator or for the many production positions in the fashion industry. The program educates students to create designs that are both innovative and current, while being marketable and suitable for manufacture.
“I am humbled and overjoyed that my friends and my alma mater desire to recognize my achievements by naming the fashion design program for me. My experience and education while studying fashion design at UNT certainly laid the foundation for my success, and it continues to support my view of fashion as a discipline of art.
“And, I am enthusiastically encouraging others to contribute to the fund so we continue to support the program and remind students of the success they can achieve with a degree from UNT.
“My friend and alumna Lisa Troutt, with a previous career in fashion design, and her husband, Kenny, have given the first major gift that will support the $2.5 million goal to name the program. My hope is that others will follow, at any level, and help with this important educational program. Please visit https://one.unt.edu/faircloth.”
-By Michael Faircloth, University of North Texas alumnus/fashion designer
Yvonne Crum says
I so love seeing this. Congratulations to YOU. I was one of the lucky ones to judge a Fashion Event at NT when Michael Faircloth was a student.. Lois Watson, Bud Knight, Lawrence Marcus and I were the judges.. and may I say Michael was picked by each one of us as the best in EVERY CATEGORY.. Congratulations to YOU Michael Faircloth.. You have made all those that believed in you from the beginning very PROUD..