For Yeohlee Teng, clothing is a personal form of architecture. Her work, she says, is designed for the "urban nomad," the consumer who demands adaptable, low-maintenance clothing that makes a powerful impression in many different environments. The Malaysian-born designer came to New York to study fashion at the Parsons School of Design and started her own house, YEOHLEE Inc., in 1981. She quickly established herself with strong geometric shapes and concise functionalism. Her designs emerge after taking into consideration weight, texture, color and the finishing of each fabric at the same time as she sketches out the shape of a piece. Yeohlee's work has been praised by the art world, and her designs have been exhibited in many museums worldwide, including the Fashion Museum of the City of Paris and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; recently, her creations earned a permanent place in the costume collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This fall, her first book, Yeohlee: Work, will be published. The book is a survey of her designs spanning the past 20 years and includes essays by prominent fashion, art and design critics and curators.
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