Calvin Klein Quotes

• People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

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• People read things into my commercials that don’t even exist.

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• Some people feel that what we’re doing makes no sense, that it’s just a waste of money. But it’s working.

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  There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it’s not as if every gay person is a great creator.

   

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• The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.

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• We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

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• There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they’re not afraid of it.

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• Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.

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• There’s an awareness of fashion in this country, and it’s not limited to gay people.

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• We’re not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

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• What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!

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• When I get into bed at night, I hope I don’t get into it alone!

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• When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

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• Women’s Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

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• 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.

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Calvin Klein (55)

Birth:	19th November, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Fashion Designer

About

Klein was born in The Bronx. His parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants. He attended the High School of Art and Design and matriculated at, but never graduated from, New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, receiving an honorary Doctorate in 2003. He did his apprenticeship in 1962 at an oldline cloak-and-suit manufacturer, Dan Millstein, and spent five years designing at other New York shops. In 1968, he launched his first company with a childhood friend, Barry K. Schwartz.

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