Courtesy of Pensole Lewis College Two-time Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter is making more history. Carter recently partnered with Pensole Lewis College, aka PLC Detroit, the only design-focused HBCU and Michigan’s only HBCU, to debut the Apparel Creation STU/DEO by adidas. Pensole lost accreditation and closed in 2015, but it was reestablished in 2021 thanks to the efforts of D’Wayne Edwards, founder of the Pensole Footwear Design Academy. “When I was a young designer, I hoped for places like the Apparel STU/DEO,” Carter, a Hampton University graduate herself, said. “I’m grateful that my longstanding career has allowed my work to honor our history
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