2. Calvin Richard Klein
• born November 19,
1942, in The Bronx,
New York
• Developed a passion
for fashion and
drawing at age of 14
3. EDUCATION
• Studied at
Manhattan’s
Fashion Institute of
Technology, but
never graduated
• Attanded the High
school of Art and
Design, gratuaded
from it when he
was 18
4. RELATIONSHIPS
• First wife was Jayne • Remarried – Kelly Rector,
a wealthy New York
Centre socialite and
• They were both photographer
fashion students at • Divorced in 2006.
FIT
• They married in • Was in relationship with
September 1964. Nick Gruber beginning in
• Daughter Marci, 2010.
now is a successful • They separated in April
2012. when Gruber
television producer entered rehab
• He divorced Jayne
after 10 years
5. BUSINESS
• Launched his own
clothing company with
childhood friend Barry
Schwartz
• With Klein’s designs
and Schwartz’s
financialbacking, a
fashion empire was
born
6. • He’s been designing sportswear since the
1970s
• The first Calvin Klein jeans were
introduced in 1972
• Started selling his own CK brand
underwear when he was 40
10. PARFUMES
• Sinece the late 80s
• First: Obsession and Eternity
• Recent Euphoria, 2007.
• Others includeTruth and Crave, which was
designed for men
• CK One for women and men
• Eternity aqua, Beauty, CK Free, CK One
Shock, Sheer Beauty, Forbidden
Euphoria, Encounter, Dark Obsession
11.
12. FAMOUS PEOPLE HE HAS
WORKED WITH
• With model Kate Moss
• Designed clothes for many stars including
Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow and Helen
Hunt
• Worked with Brooke Shields, who, aged
15, modeld his jeans with the famous line
‘nothing comes between me and my
Calvins’
13. COSMETICS
• since the 1990s
• launched his own CK brand cosmetics and
make-up at the age of 55
• only sold in the best department stores
such as Harrods, in London, and
Bloomingdales in New York
14.
15. Calvin Klein has been awarded
• Coty Award - 1973,1974,1975
• Council of Fashion Designers of America
Award - 1982,1983,1986
• CDFA (Council for Fashion Designers of
America) award - 1993
• America's Best Designer of 1993 Award.
