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Yeohlee Teng

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museums and galleries in the 1990s and early 2000s. Her participation in the group show Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design, presented at the Hayden Gallery at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982, won a great deal of favorable attention for her work and was an important factor in the early success of her company. Quoted in the New York Times, designer
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Yeohlee practices sustainable and universal design. She uses zero waste methods to create multi-functional garments. Yeohlee believes that "clothes have magic." She dresses the "urban nomad", a term she coined for her Fall 1997 collection, defining a lifestyle that requires clothing that works on a
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said Yeohlee's exhibit "proves that fashion no longer has to be separated from the other design fields. At its best, it is considerably more than a craft. It must represent its time. That M.I.T. has staged this show validates fashion and may inspire students here not to become electrical engineers
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Exhibitions of her designs have been held for more than 40 years now. Yeohlee's work, often described as "architectural," attracted the attention of critics and professionals in other fields of design. To an extent unusual for fashion designers, her clothes were exhibited as design art in many
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of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stated that Yeohlee shares the vision of the Victoria and Albert Museum founders to both promote and further the use of newly developed processes within the field. On her views on decoration, Bolton stated that Yeohlee views ornament as intrinsic to their
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Her clothing designs have been creative and unusual right from the beginning of her career in the early 1980s. She believes that clothing is an intimate form of architecture. She has established her name for strong geometric designs and concise functualism.
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construction and as acceptable only when justified by construction, lending her dresses distinction and refinement while empowering the wearer and facilitating movement.
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and in partnership with the Design Trust for Public Space and Making Midtown YEOHLEE’s collections are designed, developed and produced in New York’s
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variety of practical and psychological levels. She is a master of design management and believes in the efficiency of year-round, seasonless clothes.
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THE FASHION OF ARCHITECTURE: Constructing the Architecture of Fashion, Center for Architecture, New York NY, January 11, 2006 - March 11, 2006
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in 2003, which surveys the 20 years of her practice with essays by prominent fashion, art and design curators and critics.
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The New China Chic, Festival of China, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, October 2005
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YEOHLEE: SUPERMORDERN STYLE, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY, October 23, 2001 - January 5, 2002
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Energetics: Clothes and Enclosures, Aedes East Gallery, Berlin, May 22 - June 19, 1998 and the
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Major, John, ed. YEOHLEE : WORK. Australia: The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, 2003.
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Yeohlee spearheaded the Made in Midtown project as General Secretary on the board of the
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Making Midtown: A New Vision for a 21st Century Garment District in New York City
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Giving Our Best: The Story of St George's Girls' School, Penang, 1885-2010
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Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the permanent collection
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Luxury, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY, May 23 - November 10, 2007
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The Laws of Style podcast hosted by Douglas Hand, March 27, 2019.
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for fashion design in 2004. Her work has been displayed at the
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SKIN+BONES: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture
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Duka, John; Times, Special To the New York (1982-05-17).
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National Endowment for the Arts podcast, July 12, 2012
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Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design,
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American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion
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at Phoenix Art Museum, March 17, 2017 - May 29, 2017
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and established her own house, YEOHLEE inc in 1981.
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Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design
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Design Trust for Public Space, 2012. 603: 341:, London, November 2 - December 6, 2000 143:Council of Fashion Designers of America 512:"Yeohlee Resort 2019" - June 7, 2018, 157:. Yeohlee Teng is on the board of the 837:"History of Fashion Designer Yeohlee" 813:"History of Fashion Designer Yeohlee" 220:Front Row: Chinese American Designers 7: 266:Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 226:, April 26, 2013 - December 1, 2013 216:, January 21, 2014 - April 23, 2014 190:, October 27, 2018 - March 24, 2019 592:Chinese Americans in New York City 359:Netherlands Architecture Institute 294:, Centre for Contemporary Arts at 210:Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art 200:, May 25, 2018 - November 17, 2018 25: 348:, Paris, March 30 - July 31, 2000 159:Municipal Art Society of New York 107:. 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Yeohlee

fashion
designer
Malaysia
Chinese
Smithsonian
Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Award
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Victoria & Albert
London
Penang
St. George's Girls' School
Parsons School of Design
New York
New York City
Andrew Bolton
Costume Institute
Council of Fashion Designers of America
Garment District
NoMad
Flatiron District
Municipal Art Society of New York
Issey Miyake
ultracontemporary
Phoenix Art Museum
Fashion Unraveled
The Museum at FIT

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