Esther Park

Grey Sheep

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Location

New York City / united states

University

BFA Parsons The New School for Design

Graduation year

2023

Contact

Esther Park is a young fashion designer born in South Korea and raised in New Zealand. Currently based in New York, she focuses on materiality and how she can integrate her bicultural background and morals into her designs. The cornerstone of her work lies in combining traditional fabrics with innovative fabric manipulations and techniques. Through tapping into her core memories, Esther aims to remind her audience of their most cherished moments shared with loved ones in the mundanities of their lives.

Latest Collection

Raised By A Swan

Collection “Raised by a swan,” embodies my relationship with my mother. It explores the love and protection of my mother as well as its intensity. It portrays how I see her as my swan. A swan that crosses oceans to raise her young, with a vast wilderness inside of her when it comes to protecting her young. The COLLECTION focuses on the raw and primitive aspects of motherhood and its inevitably animalistic nature. It encompasses enamel coated pumice stones to create the illusion of something that is tough but APPEARS soft. The inspiration to explore my mother and I’s relationship for my thesis came naturally as an homage to my mother and all the women who raised me alongside her.