![]() ![]() ![]() But maybe the reason I’m successful today is because I wanted to prove to him that I could be all that he wanted me to be.” You know, I thought he was being too tough on me. And at the time, I didn’t realize it,” Hilfiger said, choking up. He said he looks back and thanks his dad for “raising the bar.” ![]() It’s a role especially important to him after a difficult relationship with his own father. Hilfiger has seven children and says being dad is job number one. I want to move on and I want to focus on doing the best I can do with my philanthropy, with our brand. “Have you ever confronted the person who you think is behind it?” “I believe it’s someone who was jealous of our success,” Hilfiger said. “In the book you say you believe you know who’s behind it, but you don’t share who that is,” King said. “Because I like to look at myself or our business as being the underdog because it makes us work harder, be more motivated, be more aware of the competition around and what’s going on, and it drives us.” “No, it took me a long time,” Hilfiger replied. “So when did you have the moment when you realized, ‘OK, I am good at what I do’?” King asked. “But George Louis had the idea that he would make the name famous overnight and then the audience would come to look, to see, to shop and buy. “Because you’re comparing yourself, in this ad, to Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein,” King said. ![]() So when that ad ran, people looked at me and said, ‘Who does he think he is?’” “And it compared me to the other great American designers and I was completely unknown. “Well, we ran an ad campaign devised by a genius by the name of George Louis,” Hilfiger said. “When you first started, you weren’t necessarily embraced and praised in the fashion industry,” King said. And that gave me my MBA - taught me how to focus on the business part of the business,” Hilfiger said. “I had an early bankruptcy with the business before I was 25. He began People’s Place in high school, bringing hippie fashions to upstate New York, while he learned important lessons in commerce. Long before Hilfiger was a brand, he was a store owner. “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King visits designer Tommy Hilfiger’s Connecticut home. I want my flag to be so known that eventually I can take my name off it and people would recognize it,’” he said. “Well, I knew I needed a logo, so I looked at Nike’s swoosh and when Phil Knight took the name Nike off the swoosh, I thought, ‘This is what I want to do someday. How did you come up with red, white and blue?” asked co-host Gayle King. © 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.“It would mean that there were products behind the name that were credible, authentic, accessible, affordable and cool,” Hilfiger told “CBS This Morning.” Tommy takes us behind the scenes of every decision and every mistake he's made, offering advice on leadership, business, teambuilding, and creativity."-Provided by publisher. A fashion icon's memoir and a road map for building a brand, both professionally and personally. Filled with anecdotes that cover Tommy's years as a club kid and scrappy entrepreneur in 1970s New York and stories of the personalities with whom he's collaborated and interacted, from Mick Jagger and David Bowie to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. To this day, his approach to commerce is rooted in his positive view of the world. Through decades of triumph and turmoil, Tommy remained doggedly optimistic. At eighteen he opened his own clothing store, parlaying his uncanny instinct for style into a budding career as a fashion designer. Nevertheless, this self-described dreamer had a vision and the relentless will to make it a reality. Growing up one of nine children in a working-class family in Elmira, New York, Tommy suffered from dyslexia, flunked sophomore year of high school, and found himself constantly at odds with his father. Since designing his first collection of "classics with a twist" three decades ago, he has been synonymous with all-American style, but his destiny wasn't always so clear. "Few designers have stayed on top of changing trends the way Tommy Hilfiger has. Imagine - Uniforms - People's place - Making it - From chapter 1 to chapter 11 - 20th century survival - Growing pains - No one is an inventor in the fashion business - Hangman - Putting the band together - Bigger and better - The kids are alright - The high life - Sons and daughters - Rock style - Hip-hop comes to Hilfiger - The rumor - Star branding - The band's breaking up - We are family - Going private in public - Boardroom bloodbath - Turnaround. Xii, 337 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations 24 cm. Fashion designers - United States - Biography.You're searching: Halifax Public Librariesįashion designers - United States - Biography.Īmerican dreamer : my life in fashion & business / Tommy Hilfiger with Peter Knobler. ![]()
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