"architectural," attracted the attention of critics and professionals in other fields of design. To an extent unusual for fashion designers, her clothes were exhibited as design art in many museums and galleries in the 1990s and early 2000s. Her participation in the group show Intimate Architecture: Contemporary Clothing Design, presented at the Hayden Gallery at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982, won a great deal of favorable attention for her work and was an important factor in the early success of her company. Quoted in the New York Times, designer Issey Miyake said Yeohlee's exhibit "proves that fashion no longer has to be separated from the other design fields. At its best, it is considerably more than a craft. It must represent its time. That M.I.T. has staged this show validates fashion and may inspire students here not to become electrical engineers but engineers of fashion.'' ultracontemporary, Phoenix Art Museum, October 27, 2018 - March 24, 2019 Fashion Unraveled, The Museum at FIT, May 25, 2018 - November 17, 2018 YEOHLEE | SERRA at Phoenix Art Museum, March 17, 2017 - May 29, 2017 Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art, American Folk Art Museum, January 21, 2014 - April 23, 2014 Front Row: Chinese American Designers, Museum of Chinese in America, April 26, 2013 - December 1, 2013 IMPACT: 50 Years of the CFDA, The Museum at FIT, February 10, 2012 - April 17, 2012 Yield: Making Fashion Without Making Waste, The Dowse Art Museum, New Zealand, March 26, 2011 - June 26, 2011 American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion, The Museum at FIT, November 6, 2009 - April 10, 2010 YEOHLEE: Design For Now, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX, October 3, 2009 - January 3, 2010 Fashioning Felt, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY, March 6 - September 7, 2009 Breaking the Mode: Contemporary Fashion from the permanent collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 17, 2006 - January 7, 2007 blog.mode: addressing fashion, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, December 18, 2007 - April 13, 2008 Exoticism, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY, November 27, 2007 - May 7, 2008 Contromoda, Centre for Contemporary Arts at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, October 12, 2007 - January 20, 2008 Luxury, The Museum at FIT, New York, NY, May 23 - November 10, 2007 SKIN+BONES: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture,