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Online Only Article By Lanie Cauthen             Fashion is an important part of today’s world– grabbing the attention of Winthrop University students for a variety of reasons.              “Well, the fashion industry is about people,” Cognitive psychologist Carolyn Mair said in “Speaking of Psychology: Psychology of fashion” – a podcast with the American Psychological Association. “It employs millions worldwide and everyone wears clothes. Clothes are the closest thing to our bodies, they're our second skin.”              According to Uniform Market, the global apparel market accounted for 1...

By Lanie Cauthen                   Pinstripes and graphic t-shirts lined the runway at “Corporate Americana” – a fashion show from Winthrop’s Fashion Club.              The event, held on March 13 in Rutledge Gallery, celebrated Black culture by defying the fashion of the American workplace. The pieces worn by the models were styled by Winthrop senior Carrie Vaughn.              “In corporate America, I think of standards,” Vaughn said. “I think of norms. I think of boundaries. I think of hatred against creativity, against who we are as people, against individualis...