Overview
- MoMu Antwerp announced that Marina Yee died on Nov. 1 after a battle with cancer.
- The Belgian designer rose with the Antwerp Six after training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
- She stepped away from commercial fashion in the 1990s for theatre, interiors, art and teaching at schools in Tournai, Ghent and The Hague.
- Yee returned with the upcycling-driven M. Y. Collection, formally relaunched in 2022 with stockists including Dover Street Market, Ssense and SKP Beijing.
- MoMu director Kaat Debo hailed her as an authentic, ethically minded voice, and Yee received the 2024 Belgian Fashion Awards jury prize.