3.1 Phillip Lim
An American designer brand known for modern, minimalist, and wearable clothing and accessories.
Last updated August 25, 2026
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Overview
3.1 Phillip Lim is an American fashion brand founded in 2005 and named after designer Phillip Lim. Rooted in the New York fashion context, the brand emphasizes modern silhouettes, clean design, and everyday wearability. Its range has included womenswear, menswear, footwear, handbags, and other accessories. The brand generally combines a designer perspective with practical wardrobe pieces, paying attention to tailoring, materials, proportion, and finishing details. Rather than focusing only on basics, it reinterprets familiar urban wardrobe items for work, social occasions, and daily wear. Information about its current retail footprint, scale, ownership structure, and recent business performance is not established here.
History
3.1 Phillip Lim was established in the United States in 2005 and takes its name from designer Phillip Lim. The brand developed within New York’s designer-fashion environment, focusing on bringing fashion-oriented tailoring, silhouettes, and detailing into relatively wearable urban clothing. Its range has covered apparel, footwear, handbags, and other accessories, with womenswear as an important area alongside menswear. The available material does not provide enough reliable information about specific stages of expansion, changes in operating entities, recent collaborations, financial performance, or current operations, so no further claims are made here.
Products and positioning
apparel
Womenswear
One of the brand’s core categories, centered on the modern urban wardrobe and generally emphasizing clean silhouettes, proportion, and everyday wearability.
apparel
Menswear
The brand’s menswear line is based on modern urban dressing and uses silhouette, materials, and detailing to express its designer-brand identity.
accessories
Handbags
An important accessories category that extends the brand’s apparel design language while serving urban use and styling needs.
footwear
Footwear
The footwear line complements the apparel and accessories ranges, carrying forward the brand’s modern, minimalist, and everyday styling direction.
accessories
Fashion accessories
Accessory categories beyond handbags and footwear that support the brand’s apparel collections and overall styling.
Recent events
Volvo Cars and 3.1 Phillip Lim collaborate on limited-edition bag[2]
Reported:
Volvo Cars and fashion designer Phillip Lim collaborated to create a limited-edition weekend bag using Volvo’s Nordico material. The bag will not be available for purchase; the article says it may be obtained through local market initiatives such as competitions, charity auctions, and giveaways.
FILA and 3.1 Phillip Lim present 2020 SS collection[3]
Reported:
FILA and designer brand 3.1 Phillip Lim jointly presented the 2020 SS fashion collection at Shanghai Minsheng Art Wharf on December 20.
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