Phillip Lim

Phillip Lim
Phillip Limis an American fashion designer of Chinese descent. Lim co-founded and worked at the Los Angeles-based fashion label Development from 2000 to 2004. In the fall of 2005, he co-founded 3.1 Phillip Lim with friend and business partner Wen Zhou, becoming the company's creative director. Lim has garnered both critical and commercial success with his eponymous line. The Council of Fashion Designers of America awarded Lim the 2007 award for Emerging Talent in Womenswear for his work at 3.1...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth28 March 1973
CountryChina
There is a secret hippie within me.
I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks. I like living with living things.
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.
I swear by the invigorating shampoo and conditioner by Como Shambhala. When you’re in need for a quick mental vacation, it does the trick
I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.
I'm not such a public person.
I'm such a technophobe.
My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.
Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.
I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.
My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.
Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,
I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm
When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.