Tommy Hilfiger
Tom Ford
April 20, 2020
Tory Burch
April 20, 2020
Thomas “Tommy” Hilfiger was born to a large family in New York in 1951. He founded a clothing shop with two friends in his hometown in upstate New York for seven years before going bankrupt. He then moved to New York City to learn about the real world of fashion, designing for various labels before meeting investor Mohan Murjani, who funded the launch of Hilfiger’s namesake label.
Since introducing his first collection in 1985, no designer has become more closely associated with Ivy League prep than Tommy Hilfiger. After building his company on the modernization of all-American men’s wear, and winning the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year award in 1995, Hilfiger introduced women’s wear in 1996 and has expanded to numerous product lines.
In 2004 he sold the company for $1.6 billion to Apax Partners, and in 2010 it was acquired by PVH Corporation. Tommy Hilfiger remains the company’s principal designer, leading the design teams and overseeing the entire creative process.
