Fashion students have been left reeling as the coronavirus shuts down their schools and wipes out all promise of graduate fashion shows and portfolio presentation events. As a snapshot of the larger global picture, FashionUnited interviews four students from Ohio’s Kent State University whose sense o
f anticlimax has replaced the camaraderie usually experienced by a graduating cohort concluding its four-year odyssey. Dispersed and contemplating a radically diminished industry, they are reexamining their ambitions and voicing their fears.