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Tommy Hilfiger
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Thomas "Tommy" Hilfiger (born March 24, 1951)〔 is an American fashion designer best known for founding the lifestyle brand Tommy Hilfiger Corporation in 1985.〔 After starting his career by co-founding a chain of clothing and record stores in upstate New York in the 1970s, he began designing preppy sportswear for his own eponymous menswear line in the 1980s.〔 The company later expanded into women's clothing and various luxury items such as perfumes, and went public in 1992.〔 In 1997〔 Hilfiger published his first book, titled ''All American: A Style Book'', and he has written several since, including ''Tommy Hilfiger'' through Assouline in 2010.〔 Hilfiger's collections are often influenced by the fashion of music subcultures and marketed in connection with the music industry,〔〔 with celebrities such as American R&B icon Aaliyah in the 1990s.〔 In 2005, contestants in the CBS reality show ''The Cut'' competed for a design job with Hilfiger in a similar fashion to ''The Apprentice''.〔 In 2006 Hilfiger sold his company for $1.6 billion to Apax Partners,〔 and it was sold again in 2010 to Phillips-Van Heusen for $3 billion.〔 Hilfiger remains the company’s principal designer, leading the design teams and overseeing the entire creative process.〔 Hilfiger was awarded the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2012.〔
==Early life and education==
Thomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger was born in Elmira, New York in 1951 on March 24. The second of nine children,〔 both of his parents were practicing Catholics.〔〔 His father Richard was a watchmaker of Dutch-German descent〔 and his mother Virginia (née Gerrity)〔 was a nurse of Irish descent.〔 Hilfiger also claims direct descent from the Scottish poet Robert Burns.〔 Describing his upbringing as very happy, Hilfiger has recollected an "All-American" childhood akin to "that Norman Rockwell picture of all the kids piled in a station wagon headed for a family picnic...we went to the local schools; we knew everyone in town." He credits his parents with instilling a good work ethic and compassion for others, writing that because of his parents' example, "very early on, I considered working hard an essential part of a happy life... we never had a lot of money, but they really did well by us. They taught us the important things in life, like treating others the way you would want to be treated."〔 Hilfiger had an early interest in sports, fashion, and the music industry,〔 a trend that ran in his family.〔 One of his brothers, Andy Hilfiger, went on to work as a musician and designer, while Hilfiger's other brother Billy Hilfiger〔 would join King Flux as a guitarist.〔 Hilfiger graduated from the Elmira Free Academy high school in 1970.〔 His parents wanted him to get a college education and pursue a traditional career,〔 and for a time he attended GST BOCES Bush Campus in Elmira.〔
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