1942-
Fashion Designer

Elegant Casual Wear.

No one helped American fashion come into its own more than designer Calvin Klein. Storming the world of haute couture in the late 1960s, Klein reinvigorated the fashion industry at a time when it appeared to have been abandoned by a generation of antifashion youth. In 1972 Klein began creating his flexible collections of interchangeable separates that were casual and elegant. His separates offered women, and to a lesser extent men, a wide range of choice for around-the-clock wear. Known for his designer jeans, his perfumes, his underwear, and his advertisements, Klein has succeeded in reinventing himself and American fashion with each passing year.

Life.

Calvin Richard Klein was born in the Bronx, New York, on 19 November 1942. As an adolescent Klein was drawn to fashion. He sewed and sketched clothes and regularly visited Loehmann's, a high-fashion discount store in the Bronx...