Collection: Marina Yee

As the influential Belgian fashion collective “Antwerp 6” turns 40 in 2026, it is also time to remember one of its members, Marina Yee, who sadly left the world in 2025. According to her, clothes should hold memories – and also clearly show them. Already from the start of her career, in the early 1980’s, she used old garments and materials and reworked them in a very visible way, showing their previous construction and seams, while still bringing them in tune with a new present. Marina Yee did start her own label, but not in the way of her perhaps more famous colleagues Dries van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester and Walter van Beirendonck – and especially her soulmate Martin Margiela, with whom she had close relations. Rather she wanted to recluse in her own world and create. Later she restored furniture and had a café in her native Antwerp and also worked for others in the group, e.g. Dirk Bikkembergs for whom she did the womenswear line. In 2018, her own brand was restarted, and from neatly classified piles of garments she had rescued, new sartorial magic was created. Wearing Marina Yee, is not only remembering previous wearers but also remembering a pioneer in fashion.