About
SEHIKYO is a fashion research project run by Seohee Kim, based between Tokyo and Seoul. Centered around the concept of the open garment, it examines when and how clothing becomes image. The project approaches making and wearing not as separate stages but as a continuous flow, engaging with the accumulation of form, sensation, time, and relationships within that process. Working through material properties and handcraft, it responds to the inherent qualities of materials themselves. It also attends to the ways experiences of making and wearing become embedded in garments through the recomposition of materials that carry traces of use. In doing so, it examines moments when image formation is delayed or displaced—revealing how the state of clothing becoming image is far more provisional and fluid than it may appear.
Seohee Kim is a fashion researcher and practitioner who received her BA in Fashion Design Technology from London College of Fashion in 2016 and her MA in Fashion Design from Royal College of Art, London, in 2018. She is currently a doctoral researcher in the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. As a co-founder of Textum Club, a platform dedicated to critical fashion research, where she continues to investigate the intersection of theory and practice in fashion, working between Tokyo and Seoul.
