YEOHLEE presents blend of fashion-nanotech at NY Spring Fashion Week
12 Sep '05
3 min read
YEOHLEE is the winner of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Fashion Design in 2004. Her clothes are sold at Takashimaya, Bergdorf Goodman, Marshall Field's and Lord & Taylor. Yeohlee recently designed the uniforms for all three highly acclaimed restaurants at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City: Café 2, Terrace 5 and The Modern.
Yeohlee Teng receives much acclaim for her clothing, which is in the permanent collection of both the Met and the Victoria & Albert Museum. She recently received the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, Fashion Design Award, and was honored for it at the White House this spring. Yeohlee has shown in New York since founding her house
Nano-Tex is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, with operations in Greensboro, NC; Belgium; China; England; India; Italy; South Korea; and Turkey. Nano-Tex develops and markets a family of nanotechnology-based textile treatments that dramatically improves the performance of everyday fabrics. To date, more than 80 textile mills worldwide are utilizing Nano-Tex treatments in products sold by more than 100 leading apparel and interior furnishings brands, including Gap, Old Navy, Hugo Boss, Paul Stuart, Rene Lezard, Lee, Nike, Champion, Levi and Simmons. Products with Nano-Tex enhancements are sold throughout North America, Asia and Europe.
YEOHLEE in 1981. "Urban Nomad," a term coined by Yeohlee in 1996, exemplifies the influence of modernity, travel and multiculturalism, evident in her fusion of innovative fabrics with good design and fine craftsmanship. Richard Flood, chief curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, said of YEOHLEE, "The lines are clean and contemporary; the garments are made to animate -- not freeze -- the wearer."
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