Tommy Hilfiger
Born in Elmira, New York in 1952, Hilfiger began to work retail in 1969. He would then purchase jeans and pell-bottom pants, customize them, and resell them at a local Elmira Store named Brown’s. Once moving to New York, NY, he was offered an Assistant position at Calvin Klein and Perri Ellis, but he rejected both to focus on a bigger venture. He founded Tommy Hilfiger Corporation in 1984.
Hilfiger divides his own successful role into being both a designer and a businessman which he himself rendered indivisible. Hilfiger has learned from older American designers Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein that fashion is a synergy of business, aspiration, and classic design.
In 1994, Hilfiger added tailored clothing to his line, confident that the men who have already associated him with comfort and clean-cut exuberance would carry those same ideals to a full-cut American suit or jacket for business.
