When designer Phillip Lim launched 3.1 Phillip Lim in 2005 with business partner Wen Zhou, he wanted to offer designer fashion at more reasonable prices. Indeed, 3.1 Phillip Lim items usually cost between US$300 and US$900 — nowhere near the prices charged by designers such as Michael Kors and Proenza Schouler. Manufacturing costs are kept low, often thanks to well-established relationships with Chinese factories.
In a little more than five years, 3.1 Phillip Lim has grown to five stand-alone boutiques — three in Asia — and its clothes are sold in more than 400 stores in 53 countries.
In 2007, Mr. Lim, who was born in Thailand to Chinese parents and moved to Southern California as a child, won the Council of Fashion Designer’s Swarovski award for womenswear. Now living and working in Soho, he is a fixture in New York’s fashion scene, which, like his own aesthetic, tends to veer toward the simple and wearable.
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I love him too! amazing!
Phillip Lim just happens to be one of my favorite designers. I posted one of his wonderful designs on my blog! It was the navy dress that I wore to dinner at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Department Stores ALWAYS have sales! Don’t be intimidated by prices.
The wonderful features of this dress are the color, silhouette and the beadwork. The cut is tailored to present a woman as taller and leaner. Less is more in regard to the fact that minimal jewelry is needed to complete the look. Clean, elegant, regal, sophisticated.
Here it is again in case you blinked and missed it:
http://www.barneys.com/Embellished-Dress/501040251,default,pd.html