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MARIE SEO
917-488-8404| seom453@newschool.edu



I am a rising fourth-year fashion student based in New York City, with strong interests in construction, trend analysis, styling, sustainability, and illustration. I am eager to bring creativity and a strong work ethic to a dynamic fashion team. Moreover, my background in biomedical science and environmental sustainability informs my design philosophy and material choices for a more thoughtful and innovative future for fashion.

Professional Experience:
BFA Showcase FOH/Production Assistant
Parsons School of Design | May 2026
  • Developed a tactile and visual textiles reference board, showcasing fabric samples from every runway look, to improve accessibility for visually impaired attendees and provide a more inclusive fashion show experience.
  • Collaborated with event production teams to execute a professional fashion presentation.

DIALECTIVE BOH Production Assistant
May 2026
  • Served as a dresser and Production assistant, supporting garment preparation, model dressing, quick changes, and backstage production logistics.
  • Coordinated with designers, stylists, and production staff to prepare garments and accessories before runway appearances.
  • Responded quickly to last-minute styling alterations, repairs, and dressing adjustments during live show operations

FIG Magazine Fashion Show
Columbia University
  • Contributed original fashion work to a multidisciplinary creative team
  • Worked closely backstage with models to ensure a seamless runway performance

Sloppy Seconds
September 2025 - December 2025
  • Supported a sustainable fashion brand focused on circular production/ waste reduction initiatives
  • Contributed to product development processes, from concept to final production
  • Conducted research on sustainable textiles and ethical supply chain practices
  • Assisted with inventory management
  • Photoshoots for website

MONSE NYFW Internship
September 2025 - September 2025
  • Supported backstage operations during New York Fashion Week runway presentations
  • Assisted stylists and dressers with garment preparation, fittings, and quick changes
  • Organized and maintained looks to ensure seamless show execution
  • Handled garment steaming, tagging
  • Collaborated with production and PR

Education:
Bachelor of Fine Arts | 2023-2027
Parsons School of Design, New York City
  • Relevant Coursework: Fashion Illustration, Intro to Fashion Studies, History of Fashion, Accessory Design: Fashion Prod, Machine Knitting, Design Studio I/II, Visual Communication I/II, and Creative Technical Studio I/II
  • GPA: 3.6

Additional Education:
Biomedical Science Diploma | 2019-2023
High Tech High School, Secaucus

Fashion Design Study Abroad | 2026
Central Saint Martins, London

Notable Awards:
Parsons School of Design
  • 25K per Academic year
  • Dean’s List, 2023-2027

Parsons School of Design
    • BFA Scholarship/ Parsons Grant, 2023-2027
Skills:
  • Applications and Softwares
  • Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, and Indesign 
  • Additional software: Procreate and iMovie












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.
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