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Fashion is a language. It’s no different than any other language. It’s a way to communicate with people, it’s a way to express how you feel at the moment or who you want to be.

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TAM: What is a typical day in the life of Chriselle Lim?

wearing, what are they currently loving. It’s so fast now. Fast than,

C: Everyday is a little different as you can imagine, but a typical

you have to research, you have to know someone in the industry. It

day would be me waking up at around 6 a.m. by my daughter. I

was like the hidden secret society, the fashion people that were in it.

used to wake up naturally at around 7:30 a.m., but now it’s at 6 a.m. because of Chloe. From about 6 to 8, it’s all my daughter. And at 8

and you could pursue a career in it if you want. You could start your

I go work out, and I always work out in the morning, I do boxing or

own blog, you could start your own YouTube channel and gaining audience. So I think overall, from when I started, fashion has always

just straight go into work, you know, drawing inspiration for our next

the way we communicate that language has changed over time.

project. Right afterwards we go into shooting, which pretty much TAM: If you could swap wardrobes with anyone in the world today, meetings. During the day it’s usually always shootings or meetings,

who would it be and why?

daughter dinner, give her a bath, put her to bed by 7 p.m., and then,

and I can totally relate to everything that she wears. I think she’s very feminine and delicate, but she’s also very cool L.A. girl. I think

time together, so we catch up for the day and then we wake up and

she does the combination of both very well. I love everything about

do it all over again.

her.

TAM: You are doing so many things everyday, how do you keep

TAM:

your energy up? How do you organize everything?

C: I think it comes naturally really. It’s so much fun for me, I wake up

sure later on it could change but for right now, I would say sleek,

excited. I mean I try to rest and I try to gain my energy and strength

classic, sophisticated, feminine but with a cool edge, like a L.A.

on the weekend, because I don’t work out on the weekend, I try not

edge to it. Like for instance, I love pairing my dresses, I love wear-

to, but besides that, I think it really just comes naturally from really

ing feminine dresses by pairing it with strong black accent or black

loving what I do, and you know everyone always asks me how can I

boots, cool boots or a leather jacket or a black choker. So, I like to

keep doing it while I have my daughter and my family, my work, my

make things a little bit more cool looking but I still like the idea of

business also, and a second baby, so it comes naturally to me.

very feminine style, like feminine sexy style but with more of a cool edge to it.

TAM: What does fashion mean to you?

C: I think fashion to me is a language. It’s no different than any

TAM:

other language out there. It’s a way to communicate with people,

their own style?

it’s a way to express yourself of how you are feeling at the moment

C: I would say don’t be afraid to play and try different things, be-

or who you want to be. It’s a way for people to communicate in general. And I think that’s why I’ve always been attracted to fash-

For me, I’ve done everything. I’ve gone from the most grisliest, like

ion because it’s simply a way to connect with other people as well

tutu dresses to the most tomboy. I cut off and buzzed my hair be-

because through fashion, you are able to connect on different levels

fore and I’ve done everything you could imagine. And I think it was

of people. I think the way we communicate fashion has changed from when I started. When I started, it was through magazine and through Television and stylist. Trying to get a job at a magazine or the moment, but obviously at the moment for me, these interesting social media. And I have a very interesting career now because of

trends were speaking to me at the time and I was playing with them,

social media. And the way we communicate to the world, we are able to share with the world how people are dressing, what are they

trial and error, I was able to discover who I am.

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TAM: What trends were you most excited about during the recent Paris Fashion Week?

C: So I was at a the Couture Week, which was a little different than ready to wear. Ready to wear is happening this next coming few weeks. A couture week is a lot more elevated and a little bit more fantasy like. I went to the Valentino show. And what was really incredible was seeing these amazing gowns, and these are couture gowns, they are not your typical just beautiful gowns, they are very very special gowns. For instance, Valentino, they paired it with amazing gown, like a hard armor body chain, from the chest to the feet to the toes, so it was almost like armor, but it was like very delicate and beautiful but it was strong. It almost looks like a warrior princess, and I love the concepts about mixing and matching, very strong elements, modern pieces with very classic and beautiful feminine pieces. I just love mixture of medal with the feminine gowns. Also, at Elie Saab, there were also a lot of modern pieces that were paired with their gowns. For instance, you saw a lot of chains and also cool boots that are paired with these amazing gowns. So it brought a lot of modernity to these classic gowns, so I think that they are modern fairytale confessed look.

TAM: How do you keep the balance being a fashionable traveler while taking good care of your baby?

C: I have a great support team. For me, I have a great team on my business side who helps me a lot. My team organizes everything and they make sure everything gets done. And then, also, on my personal side, I have my inlaws who have helped me, my parents have come down to help me. And I have a wonderful support team on that end. So, it allows me to do both. I know it’s really hard for most moms out there because they are times when I’m at home by myself without any help, it’s hard, it’s not easy and

to take care of both. And for me, it took me a year to really I have a really great team on both sides to help me keep going and help me with businesses and personal life as well.

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TAM: How do you stay stylish when traveling without over packing?

C: I think the fashion week is a little bit different because street styles. So, it’s hard for me to not over pack. I still when I travel for business or for personal trip, I don’t over

tried out before that I know that work. I can always make everything. I always bring black skinny jeans everywhere and a white t-shirt that I could layer under anything. Or a pair of white sneakers will also go well with anything. So it’s just the matter of packing the right basics that you can make them match and bring maybe like a few accessories to make it special or make it look nice.

TAM: What destination or trip was the most fun to dress for?

TAM: Have your little daughter given you any inspirations

C: I would say the fun destination would have to be, I think

on your fashion career?

Paris to be honest. I love Paris, I got so much inspiration

C: Oh yeah, absolutely. I think after I have Chloe, I feel like

from there. Women are so chic, they don’t even try. They

I have more sense of a perfect, and there’s more meanings

just look so chic. I love Paris so much because there’s so

to what I do everyday. And I mean I don’t naturally get

much romance over there. People and couples making out

fashion inspirations from her per se. She doesn’t dress

on the sidewalk. It allows me to kind of play that romantic fantasy. I go to Paris namely for Fashion Week, so I like to

allows me to dream again. For instance, I was in Paris for a Couture Week last week, and I saw a show by Schiapa-

I like to do things that I usually don’t do all the time. And I think Paris fashion week is a step further than New York

All the models were dressed like dolls, they were dressed

Fashion Week or anything else because they are able to

like music box dolls and they had these music box music

do a little bit riskier things, things you usually won’t see out

playing and it just reminded me that just being a child

here in the States, so that’s why I like Paris Fashion Week.

and dreaming again. I think that’s what having a child allows me to do, it allows me to dream again, it allows me

TAM:

to believe in fairytales and have fun with just make believe

traveling to Paris this spring?

because when you are an adult, you don’t do that on your

C: It might be still a little chilly but it should be warmer for

own, but now that I have a baby, I have to make believe with her, I have to act silly at times, I think it inspires me to

simple. What I love doing in Paris was to play with my

get new ideas and then inspires me to do different types of

accessories. So, I usually stick with my black skinny jeans,

things.

maybe a blouse and then I always layer on my accessories, such as a beret or a fun, really French type of silk scarf, it

TAM: What’s something people would be surprised to learn

gives it that French touch to it. I always love wearing red

about you?

and stripes for some reason, it represents France and it just

C: I am very very easy going. A lot of people think I might

look very cool I think, a black pair of jeans with a striped

be very high maintenance, hard to work with, because I’m

shirt with maybe a red lipstick can be very French in my

in fashion with all those glamour but I’m quite easy going.

opinion. Many people think French women would go crazy -

I love camping. I love being able to just go out camping with no fashion and make-up. And just sitting in a tent and

gance. So they may have a very amazing piece of jewelry

eating marshmallows and S’mores with my family. I love

on but it’s always black skinny jeans, a striped shirt with a

doing that kind of stuff, because it just makes you appreci-

nice bracelet and a very strong accessory. So I think that’s

ate everything that you have. Also, I guess I’m a big cryba-

about casual but elegant because of the accessories.

by. I cry a lot. I’m quite emotional.

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TAM: Where do you see yourself in 3 years?

C: In three years, maybe I will have a second child by then, a second kid. And there are a lot of things that we are working on right now that hopefully within three years we will able to see it come to fruition. One of them is, a book, so hopefully within the next two years, it will come out. And then also, even though I started with fashion, lifestyle is a big big part of my brand now. So I’ve been getting into a on my site or for those projects. If you go on to our site right now there’s a lifestyle category. We want to do more of lifestyle, hopefully within next three years we’ll be able to come out with the lifestyle brand.

TAM: What do you recommend people for travel beauty essentials?

C: OK, this is important. I always, always carry a little travel pack with me on the plane, so I don’t check it in. I put it in my purse. And they are all very small travel size kit. One is that they have to have a sleeping mask. There’s a few brands but for instance, there’s a lot of Korean sleeping mask that I use and they are invisible that people don’t look at you crazy. It doesn’t look as if you have anything on but you just put it on and it looks like lotion but its actually you can feel your skin moisturizes. And also there is oil I always use. I always carry oil with me. After sleeping mask, I’ll just drench my skin in oil because your skin really eats up a lot of moisturizer, it needs ten times more moisturizer than you are on land. So I literally drench my skin in oil, Kiehl’s, the night oil, the blue bottle. You have to put maybe three times more than you usually put on when you go in the air, your skin eats up double the amount of product.

Then there is a mist that you could spray your face every hour on the plane. It’s like drinking water to keep hydrated, you need to keep your skin hydrated. So I spray mist on

brand but any mist is okay to use.

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