{"id":40308,"date":"2016-04-15T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=40308"},"modified":"2016-04-15T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T05:11:36","slug":"designed-from-the-heart-3-1-phillip-lim-founders-on-their-global-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/40308","title":{"rendered":"To design from &#8220;the heart,&#8221; 3.1 Phillip Lim founders on their global success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University\u2019s Luxury Branding Institute led by Director Shinya Nakazawa, Professor at the Faculty of Commerce, and Sen-i, a fashion-interest group on campus, sponsored a special lecture by the founders of 3.1 Phillip Lim at the International Conference Center on March 28. Designer Phillip Lim and CEO Wen Zhou shared how they founded the brand and the story behind turning it into a global business. <\/p>\n<p>3.1 represents when Lim and Zhou founded the brand, at 31 years old. They reflected on their experience in front of approximately 360 Waseda students and public viewers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40311\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40311\" alt=\"Pictured from the left: co-founders Phillip Lim and Wen Zhou\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/T02_5434-e14605341759931-610x404.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/T02_5434-e14605341759931-610x404.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/T02_5434-e14605341759931.jpg 1307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from the left: co-founders Phillip Lim and Wen Zhou<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_40224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/T02_5377-e1460533970200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-40224 \" alt=\"\u5f53\u65e5\u306f\u4f1a\u5834\u304c\u6e80\u54e1\u306b\u306a\u308b\u307b\u3069\u71b1\u6c17\u306b\u6ea2\u308c\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3057\u305f\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2016\/04\/T02_5377-e1460533970200.jpg\" width=\"784\" height=\"520\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">the conference center is packed with excitement<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University\u2019s Luxury Branding Institute led by Director Shinya Nakazawa, Professor at the Faculty of Com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[166,167],"class_list":["post-40308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic","tag-business-en","tag-culture-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40313,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40308\/revisions\/40313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}