NEW YORK, Sep 8, 2014/ — On the first day of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Kent State University student Anastasia Lafrate won the highly prestigious SUPIMA Design competition with a purse of $10,000. Launched in 2008, the annual Supima Design Competition was created to give runway exposure to emerging talent and was modeled after the legendary 1954 Wool Secretariat competition that launched the careers of the then-teenaged Yves St. Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. Since its start, former Supima Design Competition winners have gone on to launch their own labels, show at New York Fashion Week and secure jobs with top international