Tells Another, “I am a bohemian, and I create all the time and I will never stop.”
2021
With the encouragement of creative consultant Rafaël Adriaensens, Yee got back into fashion. “In 2021, just after turning 60, she launched her own label again, M.Y. Collection, with which she planned to present a new collection every season,” MoMu’a Kaat Debo told Vogue. “It was a sustainable brand through which she wanted to show that fashion also had a human side. Bigger, better, grander was never her ambition. Sustainability and integrity, on the other hand, were her guiding principles.”
2023
Yee, who had long been working for the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, and in the Textile and Fashion Department at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) The Hague, retired from teaching. “Personally, passing on knowledge and reassuring students that there is no such thing as failure drove me as a teacher,” Yee told 1 Granary.
2024
Yee received the Jury Prize at the Belgian Fashion Awards. “What moved me most was not so much the award itself as the reason the jury had chosen me. I specifically recall trend forecaster Li Edelkoort’s words, who mentioned that, instead of disappearing from the stage and vanishing into anonymity, I have been able to come back, and come back strong. How I stood my ground all these years was phenomenal to them. Only then did it dawn on me that I had indeed been brave,” the designer said in the 1Granary interview.
2025
Yee’s work is displayed in the exhibition “40+ Years of Stijl” at the Fashion and Lace Museum in Brussels.
MoMu announces “The Antwerp Six” exhibition for 2026.
Marina Yee died, aged 67. “The collection will continue, it was Marina’s biggest wish, as she just started in 2021,” Andreasson told Vogue. “I will make sure her legacy continues [with] the designs she has created over the past 20 years in the privacy of her studio. We will not invent new styles.”
