Derek Lam

43-year-year-old Derek Lam approachable, friendly and fluent in Chinese. Now his name has resounded through the whole New York fashion circles, works around the Neiman Marcus and Barneys New York and other famous shopping malls, individual boutiques in New York downtown expansion, to the Tod’s brought a new atmosphere has been noted.
Brand Profile: Product Category: Women’s, accessories and bags. Design philosophy: set-luxury with modern practicality in one, while full of feminine atmosphere, elegant and low-key style of rendering. Design style: clean and fresh, mild restrained, there is no excessive exaggeration, decorative, flowing lines and elegant, can wear a very high degree. Create Age: 2002. Company Headquarters: New York.
Born in San Francisco, Derek Lam is the fourth generation of ethnic Chinese family, the smallest children. His childhood in the garment industry, to poetry - the parents to the United States imports of apparel from Asia, while the grandparents in the local open wedding dress factory is very successful. “As a boy I always liked to sit together and sewing workers to see if they make wedding, then it is so beautiful.”
After graduating from the Parsons School of Design, with an outstanding talent, Derek Lam lucky enough to get his first job, to become Michael Kors’s assistant in his office’s brand of designer Michael Kors Collection. In the fashion capital of New York, which may be only a surprising experience, but after Derek’s decision is clearly different from other fashion graduates - he moved to Hong Kong, entered G2000 brand. “This transnational work experience is very valuable to me in terms of wealth.”Two years later, Derek Lam returned to New York to continue to cooperate with Michael Kors, this time he has become Yue Shen, deputy design director of the brand. In different brands, different regions of the work experience, like a good show to lay out: In 2002, after full preparation Derek Lam and his business partner and boyfriend, along with Jan-Hendrik Schlottmann created its own brand, and in 2003, New York Fashion Week, staged a debut, from award-winning.
Michael Kors has been praised like to wear white shirts Derek Lam, said he was a set of wisdom, maturity, sense of humor in a person and his personality and preferences are also naturally integrated into the design of his style - his fashion work has been showing a clean and comfortable, gentle introverted style, choice of materials in particular, the details perfect, there is no excessive exaggeration, decorative, smooth lines and elegant contours. He is extremely adept grasp of fashion style: modern full, but not cold, full of imagination but a rational wealth. In addition to ordinary people in general love of fashion, Hollywood stars will also be drawn to him, and even Bush’s daughter Barbara Bush is also a big fan of Derek Lam.