Katharine Hepburn at KSU!

I have some exciting news to share with you! My Fashion Apparal Analysis class visited the Kent State University Museum on Wednesday only to find The Broadbent Gallery on dislay, which features Katharine Hepburn's clothing from stage and screen (and it will be there until September 4, 2011!)! How lucky are the students at Kent State (myself included!) to have such easy access to part of Katharine Hepburn's wardrobe?  She is undoubtedly one of the biggest fashion icons...ever. She made American style what it is today!

And Katharine Hepburn is more than just pretty clothes:

"She'd spent her life making Katharine Hepburn fascinating - to bore was the inabsolvable sin - and everything about her had to be fascinating too...her interest and her enthusiasm were appealing. And on the whole, contagious."
                                          -James Prideaux, author of Knowing Hepburn and Other Curious Experiences

In my opinion, Katharine is the epitome of elegance, not only for young fashionistas, but for any young woman who strives for success.  Who doesn't want to be seen as fascinating and enthusiastic?  She was under the spot-light constantly, but even so, maintained her image as one of the classiest and most successful American icons of all time.  I'm going to speak for every young woman in America and say that to be seen in as good a light as Katharine and to be successful at something you love to do, would be the ultimate success, and therefore, Katharine is the ultimate role-model. 


Please, if you're a fan of the lovely Katharine Hepburn, check out The Kent State University Museum's website:
http://www.kent.edu/museum/exhibits/exhibitdetail.cfm?customel_datapageid_2203427=2234961.  The site features an interesting video about the exhibit! :)

Hepburn brought pantsuits to the forefront of American women's fashion in the 1940s.

This black silk gown (1948) is one of the garments displayed in The Kent State University Museum.