Phillip Lim Quotes

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

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  Jeans, T Shirt, Shirts

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

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  Heart, Madness, Classicists

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

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  Fashion, Mean, Live Your Life

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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 think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

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  Thinking, Ideas, Appreciate

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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 stars lined up and the skies opened up and the sun shined and I met the right people - was at the right time. And, most importantly, you know I love what I do.

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  Stars, Journey, Sky

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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 make blouses.

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  Running, Dresses, Blouses

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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 think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.

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  Flower, Inspiration, Thinking

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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 would inspire - one that is cool and chic, but still very accessible.

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  Inspire, Together, Target

  "Phillip Lim Signed On as Target's Next Designer Collaboration" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.

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  Ideas, Design, Age

  "Phillip Lim Signed On as Target's Next Designer Collaboration" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I love crazy, gaudy bling.

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  Crazy, Crazy Love, Bling

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• I have always had a relationship with clothes.

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  Clothes

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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 doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

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  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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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. I like living with living things.

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  Flower, Orchids, Two

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

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  Daughter, Mother, My Daughter

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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.

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  Dog, Tvs, Affair

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

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  Mother, Clothes

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• I'm such a technophobe.

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• I'm not such a public person.

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  Persons

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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 the trick

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  Vacation, Doe, Needs

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

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  Home, College, Clothes

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

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  Growing Up, Thinking, California

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• There is a secret hippie within me.

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  Hippie, Secret

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