UA manner retailing clothing design and style college Drummond Lyon Hall

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. —

The College of Alabama declared Monday options to develop a new “slicing edge” trend retailing and attire style and design facility on campus that will “give house to preserve and rejoice style background and groom manner trendsetters of the long run.”

The College of Alabama Higher education of Human Environmental Sciences stated the new 25,000-sq.-foot facility will be dwelling to its style retailing and attire design and style concentrations. The facility will be named Drummond Lyon Corridor in recognition of a motivation from 1986 UA alumna Terri Drummond Lyon. It will dwelling The Trend Archive historic garment and textiles collection, a conservation laboratory, exhibition galleries, two reducing-edge studio school rooms, flex space for receptions or lectures, and places of work for manner retailing and attire style college.

Drummond Lyon Hall will be situated on Colonial Push and will become element of a CHES hub that incorporates Adams Corridor and Doster Hall. Pending last Phase IV approval from the UA Board of Trustees, construction is scheduled to start this tumble.

The college reported it secured $4 million in charitable presents through alumni and close friends of the university to assist the building of the manner facility.

“The University is grateful for the philanthropy of alumni and good friends, specifically Terri Drummond Lyon for investing so meaningfully in the life of our college students,” said UA President Stuart R. Bell. “Our college students are worthy of the pretty finest facilities where by they can hone their skills and prepare for prosperous occupations right after graduation. This new creating for our trend and layout applications will give the outstanding expertise necessary for our students to prosper.”

“This is a remarkable prospect to present our pupils with the greatest means and amenities to build their pathway to achievements in trend and style,” stated Terri Lyon. “It is my honor to be one particular amid many who are answering the call to assist CHES and the University, and to assistance deliver their vision for the foreseeable future of the attire and textiles application from conception to reality.”

UA stated the making will be unique between Southeastern Conference universities that supply attire design and style and trend merchandising courses through its dedicated areas for clothing conservation, palms-on learning and internet hosting symposium-style situations for the style and retail industries. In accordance to UA, the classrooms, analysis and experiential options for learners “will rival any other nationally acknowledged vogue program.”

“We have no question that when accomplished Drummond Lyon Hall will take our fantastic apparel and textiles system to even better heights,” claimed Dr. Stuart Usdan, dean of the College or university of Human Environmental Sciences. “It has the prospective to open minds to new activities and influence college students, alumni, scientists and entrepreneurs in a assortment of fields, from style to advertising and background — making leaders who make a distinction in our entire world.”