Yeohlee Teng

Biography:

Yeohlee Teng is an American fashion designer originally from Malaysia and of Chinese heritage. She received the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for fashion design in 2004. Her work has been displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Victoria & Albert, London. She practices sustainable and universal design, using zero waste methods to create multi-functional garments. Yeohlee believes that 'clothes have magic' and dresses the 'urban nomad', a term she coined for her Fall 1997 collection. She is a master of design management and believes in the efficiency of year-round, seasonless clothes.