Marie Seo is a Korean-American multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer based in New York City whose practice moves fluidly between garment, image, and gesture. Working across many mediums, including garment-making, digital/traditional illustration, painting, animation, and patternmaking. She treats fashion not simply as a product, but as a language. Her work exists in the tension between structure and intimacy. Trained in the technical rigor of garment construction, she approaches patternmaking as both architecture and choreography: flat planes that anticipate movement, seams that map the body’s negotiations with space.
Her visual language is informed by diasporic memory and girlhood iconography, often examining how cultural identity is performed, inherited, and stylized. Across media, she returns to the idea of translation: emotion into textile. The handmade becomes an act of resistance against disposability, and the body becomes both archive and site of transformation. At the core of her practice is a commitment to slowness and tactility. Each stitch, brushstroke, and seam holds an insistence on presence. For her, clothing is not merely worn—it remembers. It absorbs touch, tension, and time. In her hands, fashion becomes a living document: intimate, political, and deeply human.