Top 10 Designers

Subject: woven apparel design
Code: WAD305

Submitted to:
Helena Naznin Zubaida

Submited by:
Jannatul Mawa
112011005
5th (A)

PHILLIP LIM
Phillip Lim (born September 16, 1973 as Pheng Lim) is 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 Phillip Lim. In 2012, he was awarded the Council's Swarovski award for Menswear.

DEREK LAM
Derek Lam is an American fashion designer. He was born in San Francisco, California and is of Chinese American parentage. Lam is the youngest of three children in his fourth-generation family. His parents had a business that imported clothes from Asia, and his grandparents ran a successful garment factory in San Francisco that specialized in bridal and wedding dresses. As a child he would sit with the seamstresses, "adoring the wedding gowns. In 2003, he launched his own label. He debuted at the New York Fashion Week in September 2003. In 2005, Lam won the CFDA Perry Ellis Swarovski Award for new designers and started his own line of clothes. In addition to clothes, Derek Lam also has a line of shoes and jewelry. In February 2010, Derek Lam launched an e-commerce website selling an edited collection of ready-to-wear and accessories.

Spring 2011

Fall 2010
ISABEL MARANT
Born in 1967, Isabel studied at Studio Berçot from 1985 to 1987. Two years later she created her first costume jewellery and accessories line. Isabel Marant is a French house of fashion founded in 1994 by designer Isabel Marant. The brand was launched initially in 1990 under the name "Twen," before being renamed to Isabel...