FASHION DESIGNER
MARIE SEO
917-488-8404| seom453@newschool.edu| marieiris.com
PROFILE
I am a third-year fashion student based in New York City. I have strong interests in trend analysis, styling, sustainable design, and fashion illustration. I am eager to bring creativity and a strong work ethic to a dynamic fashion team. My background in biomedical science and environmental sustainability informs my design philosophy and material choices, resulting in a more thoughtful and innovative future for fashion.
Professional Experience:
Professional Experience:
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
Skills
Fashion Design
Parsons School of Design
- Concept development and mood boarding
- Fashion illustration, detailed rendering of fabric, lace, and silhouette
- Flat illustrations/callouts and tech packs
Parsons School of Design Course / Final Grade: A-
- Live models /real-time illustrations under a timed environment
- Well-versed in proportions utilized mainly in the fashion industry (ten head body proportions)
- well-versed on the following applications: 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.