Timmy Yip

Quick Facts

Full Name	Timmy Yip
Occupation	Production Designer
Date Of Birth	Dec 22, 1967(1967-12-22)
Age	57
Birthplace	Hong Kong
Country	China
Horoscope	Aquarius

Timmy Yip Biography

Timmy Yip is one of the most popular and richest Production Designer who was born on December 22, 1967 in Hong Kong, China. Tim graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic with a degree in photography. Since working on his first film A Better Tomorrow directed by John Woo in 1986, he has accomplished costume designs and art direction for many film and theatrical performances over the past two decades. In addition to Woo, Tim has collaborated with other film directors of international acclaim such as Ang Lee, Tsai Ming Liang, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Li Shaohong, Stanley Kwan, Chen Kuo-fu, Chen Kaige, and Feng Xiaogang. Tim has also worked with many renowned Taiwanese theatrical groups such as Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Contemporary Legend Theatre, Han Tang Yue-fu Dance Ensemble, Tai-Gu Tales Dance Theatre, and U Theatre, with performances that have toured China, Austria, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. His striking costume design and art direction for the theatre production Medea, television drama Oranges Turn Ripe, and feature films Temptation of a Monk and Double Vision have further attracted worldwide attention to his work.

Timmy Yip Net Worth

Timmy Yip is one of the richest Production Designer from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Timmy Yip 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

A renowned artist, Tim Yip has multidisciplinary works in costume design, visual and contemporary art. For his work in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Tim won the Oscar for Best Art Direction and Costume Design in 2000 and he won the British Academy Film Award for Best Costume Design in 2000.

In earlier works, Tim introduced his concept of the “New Orientalism” aesthetic, making him an important artist in helping the world understand the beauty of Chinese culture and arts. Since 2002, he has held many costume exhibitions such as Faces of the Time at the Taiwan National Palace Museum, Bourges Maison de la Culture in France and a special photography exhibition in Spain, conveying his interpretation of beauty in Oriental art to Western audiences. In 2004, Tim Yip was the art and costume director for the Beijing handover performance at the Olympic Games closing ceremony in Athens. In recent years, he has held various solo art exhibitions in New York, Beijing and Shanghai, and in 2005 he was invited by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to participate in the China Red exhibition. The Beijing Today Art Museum organized his solo art exhibition Illusions of Silence in late

2007. Tim has several publications including Lost in Time, Flower of the Wind, Floating, Circulation, Rouge: L’art de Tim Yip (published in both French and English), Illusions of Silence and Passage. He is the art director for a production of “The Dream of the Red Chamber,” produced by the San Francisco Opera in September 2016.

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Facts & Trivia

Pablo Ranked on the list of most popular Production Designer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Timmy Yip celebrates birthday on December 22 of every year.

Where is Tim Yip from?

Hong Kong

Where does Tim yip work?

He is the art director for a production of “The Dream of the Red Chamber,” produced by the San Francisco Opera in September 2016.

Who is a famous costume designer?

Creative director of Prada and Miu Miu, Miuccia Prada, collaborated with Academy Award-winning costume designer Catherine Martin and director Baz Luhrmann, selecting 40 different dresses from both the Prada and Miu Miu archives to be reworked for the film.

What do you do as a set designer?

The set designer, also known as the scenic designer, is responsible for designing the scenery—and more broadly, the artificial environment —in which a stage, television, or film performance takes place.

Who did Edith Head dress?

Crafting wardrobes for stars including Grace Kelly, Tippi Hedren, Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor, Head was the mastermind for Audrey Hepburn’s iconic look in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” along with dress designer Hubert de Givenchy. With 35 Academy Award nominations, Head, born on Oct.