Hideki Seo

Japanese fashion designer (1974–2024)

Hideki Seo (瀬尾 英樹, Seo Hideki, 10 May 1974 – 19 March 2024) was a Japanese-born French fashion designer and artist.^[1]

Biography

Hideki Seo was born on 10 May 1974. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp after studying visual design at the Kyoto University of Art.

Seo worked as the assistant designer for Azzedine Alaïa in Paris as well as developing his career as an artist. His artworks have been shown in various museums throughout Europe and America in recent years.^[2]

Seo died on 21 March 2024, at the age of 49.^[3]

Exhibitions

2015 – Solo exhibition "ON MY WAY – HIDEKI SEO" projects+gallery (Saint-Louise, US)

2013 – "A queen within", World chess hall of fame (Saint-Louise, US)

• Launch of "A queen within" at Christie's New York
• "Rooms 27” ( Tokyo )
• "50 years birthday of Antwerp fashion", at Mode museum (Antwerp)
• "ARRRGH!" Monsters in Fashion", Centraal Museum (Netherlands)
• "ARRRGH!" Monstres de Mode", La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris)

2012 – Solo exhibition "Hideki Seo", Galerie Papelart (Paris)

2011 – "ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion" by Vasilis Zidianakis of ATOPOS at Benaki Museum (Athens)

2005 – Loveless (Tokyo)

• Rooms 10 (Tokyo)
• Labels inc. (Antwerp)
• Francis (Antwerp)
• Nieuwe Ontwerpers (Rotterdam)
• Side by Side in Laforet Harajuku (Tokyo)

2004 – Usage Externe deux, Collaboration with Kart Stallaert (Brussels)

Awards

• Laureate Prize of the magazine Week-end Knack
• Laureate Grand Prize of 'Perfume project IFF New York'
• Laureate Fashion week Brussels, Grand Prize by magazine Le Vif/L'Express

Publications

• HIDEKI SEO (ISBN 978-2-7466-7161-4, 2014)

References

1. Hideki Seo CV
2. Atopos; Vassilis Zidianakis (2011). Not a Toy - Radical Character Design in Fashion and Costume. Pictoplasma. ISBN 978-3942245029.
3. アズディン・アライアの元アシスタントデザイナー瀬尾英樹が死去　享年49 (in Japanese)

External links

• Official website