Derek Lam International, LLC was founded in New York by Derek Lam and partner Jan-Hendrik Schlottmann in October 2002. Lam, a native of San Francisco, began his fashion career in 1990 after graduating from Parsons School of Design. The collection includes handbags, shoes and eyewear. In June 2011, Lam presented his first ever diffusion lineÒ10 Crosby Derek LamÓ named after the address of the Derek Lam International, LLC headquarters in downtown Manhattan. Lam has received abundant recognition within the fashion industry. He won the CFDA Perry Ellis-Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent in Womenswear in 2005, and was a winner of the Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund Prize in 2005. In 2007, he won Accessory Designer of the Year at the 2007 CFDA Awards. His work was exhibited at the Kennedy Center's The New China Chic" exhibition in 2006, London's Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibit of significant New York fashion, and The Museum at FIT's Gothic: Dark Glamour exhibition in 2008. His deep engagement and creative dialogue with the worlds of art and architecture led to the inclusion of his design in the Neue Galerie's monograph on Egon Schiele, whom Lam considers an inspiration."