Yeohlee Award Winning Designer featured in the Fashion Maverick’s Program at Fashion Week Store Tours
Yeohlee Teng, the cofounder and CEO of Yeohlee will be featured in the Fashion Maverick’s Program at Fashion Week Store Tours (http://fashionweekstoretours.com). Yeohlee Teng, the cofounder and CEO of Yeohlee says that clothes are magical. Yeohlee is originally from Malaysia and of Chinese heritage. She studied at the Parsons School of Design and is based in New York City. Yeohlee established her own house, YEOHLEE Inc. (https://yeohlee.com) in 1981.Yeohlee received the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. Yeohlee’s designs have earned a permanent place in the Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the late Richard Martin, then Chief Curator, called her “one of the most ingenious makers of clothing today.” She dresses the “urban nomad”, a term she coined for her Fall 1997 collection, defining a lifestyle that requires clothing that works on a variety of practical and psychological levels. She is a master of design management and believes in the efficiency of year-round, seasonless clothes.
