Sonin Lee

Program Coordinator
Associate Professor of Practice, Fashion Design
424 Manning Hall
901.678.2216
rslee@memphis.edu

University Curriculum Vita

Biography

Sonin Lee was born and raised southern and then landed 20 years in Venice Beach, CA. She made her way back south and is an associate professor and the Program Coordinator of the Fashion Design and Merchandising department at the University of Memphis. She has worked in costume in the film industry including assisting costume stylist/designer Arianne Phillips on the Oscar winning film ‘Girl, Interrupted’, worked freelance in textile and fashion design, written fashion design curriculum and an invited board member with fashion technology companies as well as museums. Lee’s work has been exhibited in the Los Angeles area, regionally here in the south and she is preparing to exhibit her wearable art couture in April 2022 in Paris at the World Fashion Exhibition. She has had the pleasure of working as the liaison for invited student/ emerging designers for both LA and OC Fashion Weeks and as a committee member and the liaison of emerging Memphis designers for Memphis Fashion Week. Although she spends most her time in the south now she still makes her way back to Venice where her designs and drawings are constantly influenced by the eclectic nature of that eccentric beach city in Los Angeles... which notably mirrors her eccentric southern background and upbringing.

Education

ROMONA SONIN LEE (2016), Associate Professor of Practice; M.F.A., 1998, The University of Memphis