{"id":61315,"date":"2024-05-03T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=61315"},"modified":"2024-05-04T20:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:45:57","slug":"melis-hafizoglu-24-from-art2wear-to-alo-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/melis-hafizoglu-24-from-art2wear-to-alo-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Melis Hafizoglu ’24: From Art2Wear to Alo Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Landing internships with some of America\u2019s trendiest fashion brands, sending two collections down the runway, working behind the scenes of multiple New York Fashion Week shows: these are all accomplishments Melis Hafizoglu never could have predicted when she enrolled in NC State four years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be fair, she didn\u2019t even know she\u2019d graduate from the Wilson College of Textiles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI started off my first year in the Exploratory Studies program, which is basically for undecided students. I had literally no idea what I wanted to do,\u201d Hafizoglu remembers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n