𝓡𝓮𝓭 𝓕𝓸𝔁 𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮𝓼 🦊 “I think a lot of people don't realize that when you come here, you really change. I've been here for almost a whole year, and [when] I went back home for winter break, everyone [was] like, ‘You just look different, you are acting different’. I feel like that’s the most beneficial thing that this program really provides - you're a completely transformed person. It's life-changing.” Rose Patricia ‘25, a fashion design major at Lorenzo de’ Medici on Marist’s branch campus in Florence, Italy is just getting started. In the Fall of 2021, the freshman packed up her things and embarked from her home in New Jersey to a four year adventure in Florence. After partaking in Milan Fashion Week and spending her nineteenth birthday in the city of her dreams, Paris, she never looked back. “[Marist] helped me a lot [to] discover what kind of path I want to go down with design. All my life, I thought I was going to go into women's wear, and now I'm transitioning ov...