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Tommy Hilfiger is an American fashion designer who founded the iconic Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. From his humble beginnings co-founding a jeans/fashion store in the 1970s, he went on to design preppy clothing and expand his brand into various luxury items. His collections often draw inspiration from music subcultures and feature celebrity endorsements.
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About the Tommy Hilfiger
Thomas Jacob Hilfigeris an American fashion designer and the founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation.
After starting his career by co-founding a chain of jeans/fashion stores called People’s Place in upstate New York in the 1970s, he began designing preppy clothing for his own eponymous menswear line in the 1980s. The company later expanded into women’s clothing and various luxury items such as perfumes and went public in 1992.
Hilfiger’s collections are often influenced by the fashion of music subcultures and marketed in connection with the music industry, with celebrities such as American R&B artist Aaliyah in the 1990s. In 2005, contestants in the CBS reality show The Cut competed for a design job with Hilfiger in a similar fashion to The Apprentice. In 2006, Hilfiger sold his company for $1.6 billion to Apax Partners, who next sold it in 2010 to Phillips-Van Heusen for $3 billion. He remains the company’s principal designer, leading the design teams and overseeing the entire creative process. In 2012, Hilfiger was awarded the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.
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Tommy Hilfiger is an American fashion designer who founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. He started his career by co-founding a chain of jeans/fashion stores called People’s Place in the 1970s before launching his own menswear line in the 1980s.
Tommy Hilfiger was born on March 24, 1951.
Tommy Hilfiger’s collections are often influenced by the fashion of music subcultures and marketed in connection with the music industry, featuring celebrities such as American R&B artist Aaliyah in the 1990s.
In 2005, contestants in the CBS reality show The Cut competed for a design job with Tommy Hilfiger, similar to The Apprentice. In 2006, Hilfiger sold his company for $1.6 billion to Apax Partners, who then sold it in 2010 to Phillips-Van Heusen for $3 billion.
In 2012, Tommy Hilfiger was awarded the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America.