Lea Seong is a South Korean born

fashion designer Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion in ...

Education

Seong graduated from

Chung-Ang University Chung-Ang University (CAU; ) is a private research university in Seoul, South Korea. It is widely regarded as one of the best universities in South Korea. The university operates two campuses: main campus located in Dongjak District, Seoul, and a ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

and has a bachelor's degree from

Parsons School of Design Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

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Career

Combining both Asian and Western styles, she created her own fashion brand "Lea Seong" in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

in 2008. Since then, she has presented her collections at China Fashion Week. Seong has worked at

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in New York to becoming the first foreign member of the China Fashion Designers Association. She has also been granted the China Fashion Week S/S 2009 and S/S 2010 Special Designer's Award.

Designs

Incorporating milk fabric into her designs, she made her debut in South Korea with her women's wear collection at the Pret-a-Porter

Busan Busan (), officially known as is South Korea's most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.4 million inhabitants. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, w ...

in late November, 2009."Lea Seong Makes Milk Fabric Fashionable"
Koreatimes.co.kr. 2009-11-30. Retrieved 2013-10-22. Her achievement has upgraded her as the Officer of Korea Model Association for International Cultural Cooperation.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seong, Lea Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Chung-Ang University alumni Parsons School of Design alumni South Korean expatriates in China South Korean women fashion designers