MARINA YEE: IN MEMORIAM
“I consider myself more as an artist who does fashion and not the other way around” – Marina Yee
Marina Yee, the member of the legendary Antwerp Six, passed away today after a prolonged battle with cancer. Although Yee stepped away from fashion spotlight early on, she was seen by the insiders as a key figure not only in the success of the Antwerp Six, but in building the Belgian fashion approach that relied on conceptual thinking and which in the early ‘90s ushered in an era when subtly cerebral clothes supplanted the facile glamour of the ‘80s. Her work influenced Martin Margiela, whom Yee was dating early on, and she was instrumental in the launch of Dirk Bikkembergs’s womenswear.