Marina Yee

Marina Yee was one of the Antwerp Six, the group of Belgian graduates who drove a van to London in 1986 and quietly changed the course of fashion. The most private and elusive of the six, she worked outside the industry's rhythms — gathering discarded garments, flea market finds, and cast-off materials, transforming them through layering and reconstruction into something entirely new. Her process began with fabric in hand rather than a sketch, the garment finding its shape through touch. She stepped away from fashion in the 1990s and relaunched as M.Y. Collection in 2022, returning entirely on her own terms. She passed away in November 2025, aged 67, leaving behind a body of work that anticipated much of what fashion is only now catching up to.