Mary,Mary WHYUBUGGIN: Mary Meyer Fall 2009

Mary Meyer was born in Marin, grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from the California College of the Arts with a degree in painting, funded in part by a Yozo Hamaguchi grant. While in school, Mary studied extensive types of printmaking, weaving, dying, welding and woodwork. She also discovered her talent and penchant for clothing design. Starting production out of her living room, she began to make custom shirts and dresses for her friends and peers.

In 2005 she took it to the next level and founded her own company, Mary Meyer Clothing. Starting at just a few stores in the Bay Area she found that her customers loved the wearabilty of her shapes combined with a print or piece of appliqué that set her work apart from other designers.

In 2006 MMC moved from Oakland to Brooklyn. Mary has maintained some of the sweeter style of her earlier work while focusing on branching out towards higher concept pieces. Shapes like the Biggie—a giant one size-fits-all piece, printed or solid, that can be styled in an infinite number of ways—became one of her signature looks and retains its place as a standard in her collection season after season. One buyer called the Biggie “the evolution of the T-Shirt.

MMC Spring/Summer 2009 is coming straight from the beach, or so it would seem, as the collection’s prints were born last summer while painting and relaxing in a Rockaway Beach backhouse bungalow. The shapes hold true to her simple but unique style: easy to wear and easy to pair into any girl’s wardrobe.

In addition to her clothing company she has helped start The Step Right Up Program, a free, non-profit afterschool program at NYC’s PS15 that writes and produces plays with 5th graders.
Mary Meyer Clothing

Arc Cropped Sweatshirt $88.00



The Coat $203.00



Disjointed Lines Biggie Sweatshirt $162.00


Dancing Triangles Scarf $97.00

Genie Jumper $157.00