The Flashes Elite Dance Team then took the stage to perform a routine. The show started with a speech from Cummings and the club's vice president, Taylor Ross, spoke about the club and showcased a video from the foundation, highlighting its accomplishments made in 2022. Through the foundation’s connections, the club was able to partner with different adaptable clothing brands, including Zappos Adaptive and MAI We Care. The show featured both human and dog models in the runway show. The club hosted its second annual adaptive fashion show on April 5, partnering with Kent State club Paws for a Cause. So, I reached out to the foundation about starting a club here on campus.’ 'I get so many incredible emails on a daily basis on how important our mission is so that this community can fit in and feel better about themselves, and in this case fitting in is a good thing. “I saw so much possibility with the fashion school for something like this. Ultimately, the designer hopes that Runway of Dreams can lead to clothing options in mainstream stores for kids of all different abilities. “I’m disabled myself, and being a designer, I knew there was such a need for adaptive clothing,” Cummings said.

Former NFL linebacker Saquem Griffin hosted the show Wednesday in Brooklyn.

The club partners with the foundation to raise awareness at Kent State University of the need for adaptive clothing. Runway of Dreams hosted a fashion show for adaptive clothing in Park Slope, Brooklyn for New York Fashion Week. Runway of Dreams at Kent State was founded in spring 2021 by its current president, Bri Cummings, a senior fashion design and fashion merchandising major. The foundation has partnered with many mainstream brands, including Kohl’s, Target, JCPenney, and Tommy Hilfiger. The foundation helps promote the mainstream need for adaptive clothing and to help promote people with disabilities in the fashion industry. The Runway of Dreams Foundation was founded in 2014 by Mindy Scheier with one goal: to meet the needs of people with disabilities.

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