For Yeohlee Teng design is universal. She believes that design comes from servicing a function and is refined through time and process. Her designs are driven by material, maximizing the use of each fabric by consideration weight, texture, color, and finishing. Through the process, Yeohlee “manages to synthesize style into a poetry about the possibility of fabric,” states Richard Flood, Chief Curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. “The lines are clean and contemporary; the garments are made to animate – not freeze – the wearer.”