li-fen.chang@unt.edu

Li-Fen Anny Chang teaches courses in fashion design and drawing, pattern making, draping, industrial sewing, and fashion computer. Ms. Chang comes from fashion industry background and was the designer for Arrow Shirts Co. in Taipei prior to coming to US pursuing her BFA and MA. Before joining this institution, she taught at Wade College and worked in Dallas apparel companies including Jerrell, Ltd. (now Haggar Women's Wear, Ltd.), National Spirit Group, and Ann Tobias Dresses Co. She remains active in her field through creative designs, exhibitions, freelancing, and participation of professional organization. Her designs had been exhibited at Yeiser Art Center in Paducah KY, International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) annual conferences in New York City and Portland, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and other fashion design competitions. Ms. Chang received fashion design awards from American Heart Association, ITAA, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, National Make It Yourself with Wool, and Texas Food & Fiber Commission.

christi.egeland@unt.edu

Christi Egeland received her BFA from the University of North Texas in 1994 with a major in Fashion Design and minor in Fashion Merchandising.  She joins our faculty in Fall 2008 bringing her 14 years of apparel industry experience to the program. In that time she has worked in design and production for Dallas companies such as National Spirit Group, Carlo Moda, and Jarrell (now Haggar Women’s Wear).  Most recently she has been a consultant and trainer for Gerber Technology, Inc.  At Gerber she worked with the country’s top apparel retailers and manufacturers to help them to develop better processes for their design and product development departments utilizing the latest computer software available for the apparel industry.  She brings this knowledge to our students facilitating their training to utilize these software applications ensuring that the graduates of the program will have the leading edge when they enter the industry as professionals.

orourke@unt.edu

Marian O'Rourke-Kaplan, Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs and Associate Professor in the Fashion Design program. She had a 20+year apparel industry career as a designer, production manager and operations manager prior to joining the University of North Texas’s faculty.  The courses she often teaches include patternmaking, draping, conceptual design, sewing construction, tailoring, and professional practices.

In her industry career she was a designer for several firms over a period of 12 years in which her responsibilities included product design, fabric sourcing, group merchandising, first pattern and often stock pattern creation for 5 ready-to-wear markets a year. She was also responsible for costing, fitting and specifications for production of the lines.  She worked as operations manager for 4 years in which she oversaw day-to-day operations for a small designer manufacturer. Responsible for marketing in the Dallas & New York markets, costing, production scheduling and monitoring, fabric & trim purchasing, negotiating advertising contracts and artwork selection as well as arranging and styling photo shoots, seasonal fashion show production and supervision of 7 employees. She resourced fabric and researched trends in New York, California, Paris, Milan, London and Frankfurt. 

For 4 years she created and marketed a designer line of sleepwear and loungewear for the plus size market under her own label MOR Originals. She designed, developed patterns and prototypes for three seasonal markets a year. She marketed the line nationally through plus size market trade shows in New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, as well as direct marketing to target stores and clientele through road sales and catalog. 

While at UNT, Marian has maintained a consistent record of custom design working with individual clients on development of original designs for special occasion and bridal use, has had many opportunities to act as a consultant to small start up apparel operations. She is active in professional Associations, ASDP and ITAA participating in design competitions and committee work.

Currently she serves as the Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs. In this position she oversees the Student Services office , where undergraduate advising takes place.  She is Chair of the Academic Committee and the Core Oversight committee, a member of the Executive Committee within CVAD. She is also a member of  University Curriculum Committee, Associate Deans’ Council, and the Graduate Council university-wide committees. In addition she teaches a course each semester in the Fashion Design program.

janie.stidham@unt.edu

Janie Kirk Stidham is an Associate Professor in the College of Visual Arts and Design and the Fashion Design Program Coordinator. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in Fashion and Textiles from Texas Woman's University. Before coming to the University of North Texas, Dr. Stidham spent 12 years working in the fashion industry. She has worked in design and production for several womanswear and childrenswear manufacturers in the Dallas area. She remains active in her field through organizations such as the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA), the Surface Design Association, and the Association of Sewing and Design Professionals. Her interests are focused on the use of modern textiles and alternative materials in the creation of fashion.  In the Fall of 2008 Dr. Stidham is presenting a creative teaching paper at the Annual ITAA conference in Chicago Illinois titled “Exploring Material Alternatives in Fashion Design:  Creating Eco-Fashion.” She will also be exhibiting one of her recent designs “Arctic Bliss” at the 2008 International Textile and Apparel Association Design Exhibition.

myra.walker@unt.edu

Professor Myra Walker has been at the Texas Fashion Collection at UNT since 1987, where she teaches courses in fashion history and fashion accessories. Walker founded Fashion on Main, a new fashion gallery to showcase the Texas Fashion Collection in the fall of 2006 in the Universities Center at Dallas.  The current exhibition, Promenade of Style :The Caralee Biery Smith Collection opens in September 2008. Walker is a member of the Costume Society of America and the American Association of Museums. In 2007, Myra Wallkerwas the guest curator at the Meadows Museum at SMU for an exhibition entitled Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection,  and wrote an exhibition catalog of the same title published in by Yale University Press, UK.  

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