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Calvin Klein
American
Designer
About the author
I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Fear
I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Life
#Love
#Insult
#Trying
#Women
I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Television
I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Newspapers
I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Want
#Opinion
#Privacy
I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Success
#Successful
#Reason
I don't think about my fame very much.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Fame
I don't trust a lot of journalists.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Trust
I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Fame
#Perspective
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Being
#Argument
#Disease
I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Right
#Life
#Woman
#Body
Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#News
#Controversy
I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Business
I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Clothes
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Will
#Being
#Reputation
I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Woman
#Boyfriend
I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Drinking
I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Hell
I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Love
#Intention
Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Attention
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#People
#Sense
#Money
#Waste
I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Republican
Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Nothing
#Earth
#Men
#Fashion
#Clothes
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#People
#Country
#Fashion
#Gay
#Awareness
There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Men
#Change
#Fashion
#Clothes
There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#People
#Fashion
#Gay
We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Conservative
#Fashion
#Clothes
#Sports
Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Women
I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Want
#Politics
No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Experience
#Company
#Sales
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Talk
#People
#Crime
#Fashion
People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#People
#Health
The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#People
#Production
#Design
#Company
I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Life
The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Makeup
My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Men
Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Fun
#Sense
#Humor
It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Fun
I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs; it was about sexual freedom.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Freedom
#Drugs
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Life
#People
#Rumor
If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Love
#Care
#Difficulties
If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Mistakes
I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#People
#Thought
#Name
I'm not selling sex. I'm selling underwear and jeans, and I'm not trying to do it with pornography.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Trying
#Sex
#Selling
#Pornography
I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Want
#Universe
#Trying
People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#People
My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Brothers
#Clothes
#Brooks
When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Work
#Home
#Career
#Business
You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Love
#People
#Hate
#Worry
We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Woman
Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
Calvin Klein,
American
Designer
#Hope
#Night
#Bed