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Portrait of Phillip Lim

Phillip Lim

(1973) Fashion Designer

22 quotes in 122 categories

Phillip Lim is a fashion designer, best known for Escape Towards Success.

Quick Facts About Phillip Lim

Born: September 16, 1973
Profession: Fashion Designer
Notable works: Escape Towards Success

About Phillip Lim

Phillip Lim is an American fashion designer. Lim is of Chinese descent whose parents immigrated to the United States from Cambodia during the Cambodian genocide. 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 representative.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Phillip Lim

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

Jeans

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I try to always have flowers in the house. I have a florist in Chinatown, and they deliver orchids every two weeks.…

Chinatown

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I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!

Classicists

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I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I…

Aesthetics

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There is a secret hippie within me.

Hippie

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I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.

Business

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I have always had a relationship with clothes.

Clothes

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I'm not such a public person.

Persons

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Since an early age, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of design evolution,

Age

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When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just…

Flower

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My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

Children

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Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

Fashion

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One of the reasons I wanted to collaborate with Target is because I felt that together we could create a collection that…

Chic

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I love crazy, gaudy bling.

Bling

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When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I…

Blouses

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I swear by the invigorating shampoo and conditioner by Como Shambhala. When you’re in need for a quick mental vacation, it does…

Doe

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I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

Affair

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My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

Clothes

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You know, for myself, my personal journey has been a very fortunate one and I would say to people it's like the…

Fortunate

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I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

California

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Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a…

American family

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I'm such a technophobe.

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