Belgian designer Marina Yee, member of Antwerp Six, dies age 67

Belgian designer Marina Yee, member of the Antwerp Six collective that revolutionized vogue within the Nineteen Eighties, has died on the age of 67, the Antwerp Fashion Museum introduced on Sunday.

“Her name is inextricably linked to the legendary Antwerp Six collective, which put Belgian fashion on the world map,” the museum emphasised.

In 1986, six younger Flemish designers, graduates of the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts, packed their creations right into a van and set off to beat London’s “British Designer Show.”

Because their names have been practically unpronounceable exterior Belgium, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Van Saene, Marina Yee, (*67*) Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, and Dirk Bikkembergs got here to be often known as the Antwerp Six.

Their sober, uncooked, and deconstructed designs stood in stark distinction to an period dominated by sequins and shoulder-padded jackets.

Since then, these designers have skilled assorted fortunes—from the relative anonymity of Marina Yee to the worldwide success of (*67*) Van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester, celebrated from Tokyo to New York, and Dirk Bikkembergs, whose T-shirts and sneakers have been embraced by athletes.

Before Yee’s dying from most cancers, the Antwerp Fashion Museum had already deliberate to dedicate an exhibition to the Antwerp Six in 2026, to have a good time the fortieth anniversary of their worldwide breakthrough.