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Marina Yee, The Sixth of the Antwerp Six, Found Beauty Where Others Saw Nothing

By Jeroen Maris, translated by Paola Westbeek
7 September 2026 9 min. reading time

Her final work of art was a wall: in her hospital room, Marina Yee had the beige painted an eye-popping pink. The fashion designer, known as one of the Antwerp Six, is receiving posthumous salutes in several books and exhibitions.

Jeroen Maris

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