Calvin Klein is
a world-renowned fashion designer who founded the clothing brand Calvin Klein.
The company also markets jewelries, watches and fragrances.
Calvin Richard
Klein was born in Bronx on November 19, 1942. He was an alumnus of the Fashion
Institute of Technology in New York. He started his successful career in
fashion designing as an apprentice in a local producer of cloaks and suits.
After that, he has been a designer of outerwear and fashion clothing for many
New York shops.
His passion for
fashion designing can be traced to his early association with Baron de Gunzburg.
Gunzburg introduced Klein to the high society in a variety of settings and
events. This association made the Calvin Klein brand a known name in New York
even before Klein made his way to the fashion industry.
In 1968, Klein
opened his own fashion company named Calvin Klein Inc. He started by designing
women’s coats. His designs and brand became popular that branching out to other
clothing designs was inevitable.
Klein designed
and introduced the tight-fitting jeans in 1974. This gave jeans a different
feel and look. Before Klein’s
fitting jeans, jeans were casual clothes and even regarded as work apparel.
He revolutionized contemporary clothing by coming out with designer jeans. The
new design was widely accepted, especially with the endorsements of the likes
of Brooke Shields.
Klein continued
to produce quality clothing with modern style and clean lines. That year, he
won the nod of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) for clothing
designs for men and women.
In the early
1980s, Klein launched his fragrances. Among his most popular scents are Escape,
Eternity and Obsession. His “cK One” made a mark as a unisex fragrance in 1993.
Klein started
opening in different major cities of the US. Eventually, his stores began
opening in many other major cities around the world.
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