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Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo

Avant-garde fashion and cutting-edge art, from collecting haute couture to experimenting with how emerging technologies can expand human creativity and agency.

Culture & Creativity

Yu-Chi serves on the board of The Shed, New York City's leading arts and cultural institution for a technology-forward future. She is a collector of haute couture and digital art, and is passionate about creative expression — from large-scale community installations to hosting salons that bring together people across disparate disciplines and fields.

Humanitarian Work

Yu-Chi has a long record of humanitarian engagement. She has founded and served on the boards of several nonprofits, including Little Mercies — which feeds, shelters, and educates displaced children on the Thai-Myanmar border.

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AI and Art: What’s Missing and What Comes Next
Art Basel

AI and Art: What’s Missing and What Comes Next

Art Basel panelist alongside Beeple and Emmett Shear, moderated by Alex Poots, exploring how AI tools amplify rather than replace human creativity—and what the institutional art world needs to understand about emerging technology.

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The New Queens (and Kings) of Couture
Air Mail

The New Queens (and Kings) of Couture

Profiled by Air Mail as part of a new generation redefining couture, Yu-Chi views haute couture as a form of authorship. It means letting go—of playing it safe, and of dressing to signal belonging—in favor of joy, playfulness, and the freedom to take risks in creative storytelling.

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