Remembering Marina Yee, Antwerp Six designer who helped reshape Belgian fashion


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Marina Yee is remembered as a loving mother and creative soul. Photo: Instagram/Marina Yee

Marina Yee, an artist and fashion designer who was one of the Antwerp Six, a group of singular young designers who for a brief moment in the 1980s turned Belgium’s second-largest city into a fashion capital, died on Nov 1 in Antwerp. She was 67.

The cause of death, in a hospital, was pancreatic cancer, Rafael Adriaensens, Yee’s business partner and the curator of her archive, said.

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