Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

His early years

Calvin Richard Klein was born on November 19, 1942, in the Bronx, New York, where he spent all of his childhood. Klein was the second of three children born to Flo and Leo Stern. The family lived relatively comfortably. His grandmother was a seamstress and he acquired his love of sewing from her. His mother encouraged his love of art and fashion.

Klein attended the High School of Art and Design, which prepared students for
careers in advertising and drafting. As a youth, while others his age were playing sports, Klein was busy studying, sketching fashion designs, and sewing. Later he moved on to the esteemed Fashion Institute of Technology, graduating in 1962. He spent five years as an apprentice (a student working toward learning a skill) in a coat and suit house on Seventh Avenue in New York City, working long nights and weekends to perfect his own designs.

In 1968 Klein and close childhood friend Barry Schwartz created a Calvin Klein coat business. The first order was actually obtained by accident. A coat buyer from Bonwit Teller (a large New York City clothing store) got off on the wrong floor of a hotel and wandered into Klein's workroom. She placed an order for $50 thousand, which was a huge amount at that time. Encouraged by favorable reviews from the fashion press and the support of store executives, Klein expanded his line to include women's sportswear.

Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

Calvin Klein Designer Photos Reviews

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Canadian Fashion Gallery

If New York is the Big Apple, then Toronto is a smaller sized plum at best. The self-proclaimed center of Canada is often compared to the universally-elected center of the universe, but as Steve Martin declared in an episode of 30 Rock, ”Toronto is just like New York but without all the stuff.” This was evident at Toronto’s 10th incarnation of its very own homegrown Fashion Week, this time sporting the clunky official title “LG Fashion Week Beauty by L’Oreal.” This year’s theme of “Show Love” was pleasantly optimistic, if not predictably Canadian in its unabashed sentimentality, and the overwrought use of pink and red hearts as the major aesthetic motif was a little much for a celebration of high fashion.

But I digress. Fashion Week, whether it’s in Toronto or New York, is about the clothes, and in this arena the designers did little to disappoint.
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Fashion Flashback

Chloe Sevigny's Style Is Downright Psychic

There are girls who love fashion (yours truly) and girls who were born to wear clothes. I'm talking Jackie O., Katharine Hepburn, and Mary-Kate Olsen, people who have style so deep in their DNA that being told to wear a school uniform would be a fate worse than death. I'm officially putting Chloe Sevigny squarely in the latter category, after spying this amazing photo of her in this week's New York Magazine...

The issue is chock full of incredible stories of celebrities' first year in New York (everyone from Naomi Campbell to Andy Samberg share their mouse-hunting, ramen-noodle-eating tales), and Chloe arrived in 1991 to dance at all night raves and sleep in Washington Square Park. She quickly made her way onto the downtown scene, thanks to an innate sense of style that can only be described, in italics, as chic. The legendary paparazzo Ron Galella took this snap of her in 1996, and it totally solidified her status as a larger-than-life fashion personality for me.

A true style icon never looks dated, and this photo absolutely captivated me with how modern it feels. Yup, it's 13 years old, and yet there is Chloe rocking two of this year's biggest trends--the one shoulder dress and textured tights--like the style soothsayer that she is. It's bold and daring and beautiful and yet nowhere near over the top. She's always been a woman who knows how to take risks--check out her impressive lesson on mixing and matching unexpected color combos here--and I've seen them pay off over and over again.

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