About
Morag Seaton is a Scottish designer and maker whose work combines thoughtful research into everyday clothing rituals with highly crafted fashion artefacts.
Morag is her name and the name of her design studio, where she makes carefully constructed objects inspired by conversations with people about their clothing experiences, understandings, and fictional ideas. Each project begins with an everyday or speculative question that seeks to unpack the socio-cultural, environmental and personal significance of the objects we wear. The resulting fashion artefacts are made using circular or zero-waste methods, and high-quality materials that are locally sourced, or repurposed from deadstock and post-production waste.
A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art 2018 and the Royal College of Art 2023, Morag has received awards across design, sustainability and writing, including the John Byrne Writing Award 2018, the Sustainable Futures Scholarship 2021 and the ALMAW Award at Cockpit 2025. She is the co-founder of Worn.
Her work in circular fashion has been exhibited at the Design Museum, London. Her publications, 12 Stories from the Worn Archive and A Pocket Guide to Using Pockets, are stocked internationally, including at Tate Modern and The Met.
Morag Seaton is a Scottish designer and maker whose work combines thoughtful research into everyday clothing rituals with highly crafted fashion artefacts.
Morag is her name and the name of her design studio, where she makes carefully constructed objects inspired by conversations with people about their clothing experiences, understandings, and fictional ideas. Each project begins with an everyday or speculative question that seeks to unpack the socio-cultural, environmental and personal significance of the objects we wear. The resulting fashion artefacts are made using circular or zero-waste methods, and high-quality materials that are locally sourced, or repurposed from deadstock and post-production waste.
A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art 2018 and the Royal College of Art 2023, Morag has received awards across design, sustainability and writing, including the John Byrne Writing Award 2018, the Sustainable Futures Scholarship 2021 and the ALMAW Award at Cockpit 2025. She is the co-founder of Worn.
Her work in circular fashion has been exhibited at the Design Museum, London. Her publications, 12 Stories from the Worn Archive and A Pocket Guide to Using Pockets, are stocked internationally, including at Tate Modern and The Met.
Book Stockists
Artwords Bookshop Limited London
Athenaeum Boekhandel Amsterdam
Chess Club LLC Portland
Claire de Rouen London
Do You Read Me?! Berlin
Good Press Glasgow
Magalleria Bath
Magculture London
Materia Prima Porto
Parvum Artis, S.L. Madrid
Pony Books Gothenburg
Printed Matter Inc. New York
Public Knowledge Books Ltd London
Rare Mags Stockport
Skylight Books LA
Tate Modern London
Tenderbooks London
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art New York
TYPE Books Toronto
Ulises Philadelphia
Awards
ALMAW Award at Cockpit 2025
Creative Scotland Four Nations International Fund in collaboration with Zero Waste Design Collective, Designers Consociate and Worn Workshop 2024
Material Sponsor awarded by Halley Stevensons Ltd. 2023
Finalist for the RCA & IFF (International Flavours and Fragrance) Europe Scent Competition 2023
Finalist for the RCA & 100 Percent Optical Eyewear Competition ‘Past Present Future’ 2022
Sustainable Futures Scholarship from the Elsener Family (RCA 2021)
Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award 2021
Shortlisted for the Scottish Craft Award 2019 (Exhibited at the V&A)
Winner of The Glasgow School of Art Sustainability Degree Show Prize 2018
Winner of The Glasgow School of Art Award for Dissertation 2018
Winner of the Incorporation of Bonnetmakers and Dyers Design Award 2018
Winner of The John Byrne Award for Writing 2018
Runner up for the Vivienne Westwood Sustainable and Ethical Award 2018
Exhibitions and Events
The Archive in Hand
Worn Objects: Past, Present and Future
collaborative workshop and publishing project curated by Michaela Clarence and AYFP
Constance Howard Gallery, Deptford Town Hall, London
June, 2025
Pockets and the Body
collaborative workshop led by WAEN + MORAG
The Meeting House, London
February, 2025
Future Observatory: Tomorrow’s Wardrobe
The Design Museum, London
September 2024 – August 2025
Making Zero Waste
collaborative project with Roundabout, Zero Waste Design Collective and Worn Workshop
Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana
April, 2024
Coded Bodies by MV Brown
Costume designed and produced for MV Brown and digitised by Fashion Interrupted, supported by Creative Scotland
Jerwood Arts Survey III
Exhibited at Southwark Park Galleries, London
April, 2024
Do You Buy This?
curated by Amber Kim, Cas Bradbeer, Sufiyeh Hadian and Zarna Hart
Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner Street, London
August, 2023
The Royal College of Art Graduate Showcase
The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
July, 2023
The Royal Leather Studio Exhibition
Hangar Space, Royal College of Art, London
February, 2023
ENTRÉE
4th floor, Royal College of Art, London
February, 2023
The Regenerative Hub
UKRI Textiles Circularity Centre
The Lab E20, London
October-November, 2022
Generation of Waste COP26
Blue Zone, Glasgow
October-November, 2021
Social Fabric
curated by Pa/Do Curatorial
Shandy Street, London
June 2021
Garment Stories and Sustainability: Past, Present and Future
University of York Annual Fashion Symposium
Jun 2021
Design in an Age of Crisis: London Design Biennale
Somerset House, London
June 2021
Scottish Craft Awards and Exhibition
V&A Dundee, Dundee
April, 2019
The Fashion Show
The Savoy Tower, Glasgow
May-June 2018
The John Byrne Award, Exhibition and Award Ceremony
Fruitmarket Gallery
Feb 2018
In the Making
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
January 2018
Conscious Catwalk
Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
September 2018
1947-2017 Fashion Show
The Art School, Glasgow
March 2017
SR:D Scotland Redesigned
St Enoch Centre, Glasgow
November 2016
The Archive in Hand
Worn Objects: Past, Present and Future
collaborative workshop and publishing project curated by Michaela Clarence and AYFP
Constance Howard Gallery, Deptford Town Hall, London
June, 2025
Pockets and the Body
collaborative workshop led by WAEN + MORAG
The Meeting House, London
February, 2025
Future Observatory: Tomorrow’s Wardrobe
The Design Museum, London
September 2024 – August 2025
Making Zero Waste
collaborative project with Roundabout, Zero Waste Design Collective and Worn Workshop
Lagos, Nigeria and Accra, Ghana
April, 2024
Coded Bodies by MV Brown
Costume designed and produced for MV Brown and digitised by Fashion Interrupted, supported by Creative Scotland
Jerwood Arts Survey III
Exhibited at Southwark Park Galleries, London
April, 2024
Do You Buy This?
curated by Amber Kim, Cas Bradbeer, Sufiyeh Hadian and Zarna Hart
Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner Street, London
August, 2023
The Royal College of Art Graduate Showcase
The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London
July, 2023
The Royal Leather Studio Exhibition
Hangar Space, Royal College of Art, London
February, 2023
ENTRÉE
4th floor, Royal College of Art, London
February, 2023
The Regenerative Hub
UKRI Textiles Circularity Centre
The Lab E20, London
October-November, 2022
Generation of Waste COP26
Blue Zone, Glasgow
October-November, 2021
Social Fabric
curated by Pa/Do Curatorial
Shandy Street, London
June 2021
Garment Stories and Sustainability: Past, Present and Future
University of York Annual Fashion Symposium
Jun 2021
Design in an Age of Crisis: London Design Biennale
Somerset House, London
June 2021
Scottish Craft Awards and Exhibition
V&A Dundee, Dundee
April, 2019
The Fashion Show
The Savoy Tower, Glasgow
May-June 2018
The John Byrne Award, Exhibition and Award Ceremony
Fruitmarket Gallery
Feb 2018
In the Making
The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
January 2018
Conscious Catwalk
Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow
September 2018
1947-2017 Fashion Show
The Art School, Glasgow
March 2017
SR:D Scotland Redesigned
St Enoch Centre, Glasgow
November 2016