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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.Lam graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1990.