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An iconic American designer, Klein has defined the last half century of fashion with his visionary minimalist design philosophy, characterised by a dedication to simplicity, comfort, and elegance. In this time, he has transformed his clothing line into a multi-million dollar global lifestyle empire, spanning ready-to-wear, fragrances, furniture, and more. He is now retired, and recently published a survey of his legendary career.
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[@spreadthelove77]

His only daughter said that she was always embarrassed when she saw her fathers name on the boxers of the guys she was dating🤣👌🏼

[@kevinvanhorsing5141]

She was a promiscuous bitch

[@flyingviking5281]

@@kevinvanhorsing5141 Shut your fucking mouth, Kev. Who are you to judge?

[@Abdulmalik12341]

@@kevinvanhorsing5141 this made me laugh for some reason. God.

[@seawater4607]

Hahahae

[@charles_preston]

I feel sorry for her.

[@maureenrhysjones4643]

Success takes many forms. He has been a huge success for decades, listen and learn instead of criticising! Love him for what he's given us. Class act, ankles and all!

[@alfredthepatientxcvi]

I never knew, he actually existed!

[@dailyrants33]

Betty Crocker never did.

[@kevinvanhorsing5141]

🤪🤪🤪

[@Model_Roe]

He's done a lot of interviews it's not hard to find footage of him online

[@krag3r]

My mom met this guy back in 1955 at her high school 'enchantment under the sea' dance.

[@kriss9501]

Gez is this a back to the future reference?

[@williethomas8428]

Interesting since he was born in 1961🤣

[@williethomas8428]

Just kidding😂

[@charles_preston]

I bet he didn't make a pass.

[@ishitarawat3409]

Calvin Klein is so down to earth. It was great listening to him.

[@sabranbinfarabi8091]

This guy is a great person..who struggled harder..and now big legend

[@3a5859]

So talented and such visionary that his iconic 80s-90s Ad Campaigns still sell the brand to this day. A great sociologist, consumer behavior maverick and overall Iconic American Original. Thank You Calvin for all you ve done for youth and fashion 🏆🥂

[@adrianok7329]

yes i only wear ck

[@kateforsyth1371]

Masterful designer. I love that he stayed true to his minimalist aesthetic. I’m not sure if he invented the slip dress but I remember him for that.

[@macklee6837]

He's old enough to be my grandad and he's got better hair than me 😩🥴

[@charles_preston]

His hair might be okay, but the rest of him looks wretched. Listen to his voice... the man sounds weak, almost deathly.

[@rabmcleod3508]

Could look and listen to him all day long, great.

[@TheAzurinBoyz2012]

I don't know if it's just me but I totally love Ckone cologne ever since. It made my highschool years memorable. Even now it still refreshing to smell and never gets old.

[@3581tossit]

agree

[@shaynarose4254]

LOVE hearing CK!!! Fascinating!!!!! Not a good interviewer and not good questions.

[@awesomegamer31]

The man, the myth, the legend

[@cheropmercy1730]

Absolutely

[@kevinvanhorsing5141]

🥀

[@k.h.1756]

His suit and style look so refined here.

[@jc6594]

Happy 80th Birthday Calvin Klein

[@srouji6]

CK is a LEGEND!

[@Model_Roe]

Agree marketing wise man is an absolute genius his ads were so weird but like cool very ahead of his time

[@theokishna6973]

One of my fav designers! I still like the basic black T-shirt with his name on it and normally I do not like to wear cloths with names of the designers because I am not a walking billboard but his I like!

[@twotimes629]

This is my favorite interview ever so informative. I love his mind

[@sirachvlogs5586]

I could,listen to him all day. He is very down to earth.

[@duchess56me-tf7fx]

Interesting. I always got compliments when I wore his jeans.

[@AlexFPS17]

i love the calvin rose trunk boxers. great designer!

[@mellejobs7412]

As minimal as his look. Perfect.

[@PacificPier]

Wish they had an Oxford inscribed CK peacoat waiting for him.

[@irenimoyanirenimi398]

Love this

[@ZyastarrTV1]

Im so happy to be apart of his team.

[@gintaremaksimovaite2955]

I am so happy to hear that you have the daughter, Mr.Calvin Klein. Thank you very very very much, Mr.Calvin Klein.

[@raymondhartono]

I love how he does thing inexpensively!

[@armahankar7107]

lov this guy.. knew the brand, never bought, just heard of him.. lovely workaholic nice european looks pal.. salute

[@henrypatterson5563]

Great confidence and very inspiring figure best health Calvin you look great

[@livecolours]

My favourite designer ✨☀️✨

[@dirk2655]

The magic for businesses is usually making the brand noticeable, creating a brand for everyone that anyone will trust, and creating an appeal for the brand, logo, and the comfort that comes from acquiring such a brand while making it affordable through a line of products that create more access. So, it's not necessarily the financier nor the banker etc. They are consequential. With no technology, comfort and access, you don't have the brand and the logo doesn't get respect. This you must do daily, it's not season by season.

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

Bravo Mr C. Klein !

[@MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by]

Gold. thankyou OU.

[@zamtube791]

Success what you do is feeling good about it, rightly said.

[@poornimagandhu1743]

How can I connect with ur business along with my own eco friendly products

[@cooperdavid7694]

Calvin klein vs Giorgio armani who win? I like his suit, so fit and great cutting

[@gintaremaksimovaite2955]

Dear Mr.Calvin Klein. I am alright, i am at home with my family and i am praying. Be very safe and healthy, dear Mr.Calvin Klein. Gintarė Maksimovaitė

[@JimA-pp2nu]

old queen

[@beth8199]

I hope a director stay Making the serie of this leyend, how he was maintenance still in the business

[@sannimcable]

I like life stories

[@srouji6]

Calvin Klein is an Iconic American with an Iconic American Brand that is recognized internationally!

[@bricology]

One could say the same about say, McDonald's or Starbuck's, but that doesn't mean they're not all crap.

[@jazminelee5166]

@@bricology Calvin Klein isn't crap. Don't be hateful.

[@user-ue6ln4cg5q]

ショーン　メンデス君をCMに使ってくれて、ありがとうございます😊

[@gintaremaksimovaite2955]

Dear Mr. Calvin Klein. I am writing to you with the highest respect as if i was working as a cleaning lady at your house. I know that i will never go to the USA. But i want you to know that i am a good person, honest and generous. I loved and i love wearing your clothing (jeans) so so much. It doesn’t matter what color of clothes you wear in this video. I hope you are alright, Mr.Calvin Klein. I am Catholic, Christian. I have been working very hard at my Grandmother’s village last 5 years of my life. I am very responsible person, i take care about myself and the clothing i wear. I am at home, very safe. Take care about yourself, please. I see the Oxford name in this video. And i understand that you live in America. It is written that this video was made 2 years ago. I just wanted you to write to take care about yourself, Mr.Calvin Klein. Gintarė Maksimovaitė.

[@gintaremaksimovaite2955]

American born very famous American fashion designer Mr. Calvin Klein, thank you with all my heart for this video. You are so elegant, good, generous, handsome and talented. Everything is going to be alright. The USA is safe country. I really know that. The USA loves Americans. So everything is going to be ok. Please, do not worry, Mr. Calvin Klein ❤️ I understand that this video is filmed in England, Oxford university. But it is just the video, do not worry. Video is just the video. I couldn’t find new video about you on KZbin this morning, Mr. Calvin Klein. I read in Wikipedia where you can find very reliable information, that you were born in the USA and you live in the USA. This is true, Mr. Calvin Klein. Everything is going to be alright. I am sorry, maybe i am writing too much opinion, Mr. Calvin Klein, but it is better not to wear black and white clothes. It may bring bad luck. Gintarė Maksimovaitė. Explanation about me : ( In the picture on my KZbin profile my make -up is quite dark, just many people in the world would like me, i hope you understand Mr.Calvin Klein.) All the pictures on my Apple account (iCloud account, they name that their account) is real. I have never been working as a photo model in my life, I have been studying law in Mykolas Romeris university, but i think i was pretty when i was young. Now i aged, do not find a good job in Lithuania, so it is such my life, Mr.Calvin Klein.

[@ryanweaver962]

Defining translation CK over time…

[@jessiehernandez75]

Like he said, "you have to have a great deal of money." Wow, even after all these years he can't be greatful, or say he's even be thankful.

[@shimasamantha626]

and and and and and Instagram. !

[@ascojr2786]

Micheal buffer turns into Calvin Klein lol

[@jeffreykent5271]

I am not trying to be funny but I thought he had passed away several years ago .....

[@bricology]

From all appearances, he *had* .

[@oneofyou6773]

Calvin Klein came out as gay few years ago. His first publicly gay relationship was with a 20-year-old kid (sixty years younger than him). The point is not that Calvin is gay though, but why gay men think they have ANY right to speak about female beauty. No wonder when his era began (you need to be in your fifties for you to know what I mean), the whole stance on female beauty blew up! Naomi Campbell abs Cindy Crawford were considered “old fashioned beauty” once he introduced women who looked like boys just about entering puberty. He put on a pedestal women who looked like crack whores (and admittedly said so). Before him, respectable magazines didn’t flaunt men with naked shaven butts. We didn’t think it was a homosexual stance because homosexuality wasn’t as widespread and acceptable as it is today. Back in the day, Calvin Klein was the biggest fashion house ordinary people wanted to be part of, fashion was no longer for the elite once he broke onto the scene and boy did he explode everywhere! This man singlehandedly changed the perceptions of beauty in the fashion industry, the media, abs Hollywood using his clique of gay friends who were not few. Now we have an entire generation of women who think they’re fat at size 6, think facial/chest hair is ugly on men, and men who think seeing a woman’s rib cage from the front/back is a sign of elegance. I can’t wait for straight men to take over this industry but I’m not holding my breath.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

So much of modern fashion and modern art is superficial and empty.

[@juliakoltzoff6870]

Only if YOU have no soul when you wear/ see it....🏝🤙

[@HoodrichShinobi]

you sound like a broke person

[@ASlyFilm]

Why is everyone coughing!?

[@jarayablack3619]

Humans?

[@rodimousa9503]

I love their fasion spicaly undies 😁

[@YTonYahoo]

Hey

[@richardsilmai9038]

Thank you for mentioning Michael Milken read about him a prostate researcher now helping the same person wrongfully indicted him.

[@gintaremaksimovaite2955]

Dear American born very famous fashion designer Mr. Calvin Klein. I am a healthy woman. Do not believe in nasty gossips about me if the people might talk nastiest and untrue gossips. I respect and love you with all my heart. I am not wearing your clothes, because i respect you in the highest way, but they are very safe at home in Pašilaičiai, Vilnius, Lithuania where i live with my parents. I showered them with original soap from New York and do not shower them anymore. They are safe. Take care, please,Mr.Calvin Klein and be very very safe. Dear Mr.Calvin Klein i am listening to the same interview made some years ago in Oxford i clearly understand that. I know you are from the USA. I am also sometimes wearing black and white clothes, but in my opinion it would be perfect to wear bright colors clothes. Gintarė Maksimovaitė

[@robertwilkins8357]

I worked in his house taking of it in Key West and the house on the ocean on Fire Island Pines new york. Breaks my heart to see him like this, he was so handsome and Kelly was a real pretty lady in the 80S.

[@LPAdams1001]

17:58 Instagram? What's that?

[@fressen]

Who are all those people hacking in the background??

[@zuhalava595]

Benim görüşüme göre, çok yakışıklı bir erkek kendisi! Donanımlı ve hayatın her sillesini ve zevkini yaşamış çok düzgün ve duygusal bir Akrep Burcu erkeği kendisi! Çoğu erkeğe yakışıklılık anlamında taş çıkartır! Kadınlardan sonra erkeklerle ilgilenmesi ile alakalı, ona sadece saygı duyabilirim! Aldığım çamaşırları dünyanın kalite anlamında , bir numaralı iç çamaşırlarıdır! Öncelikle kendisi bir baba. Seni Seviyorum Calvin

[@poornimagandhu1743]

Plz need to connect right person

[@fansdegelo595]

Hay una copia barata llamada "Clevin Kliens"

[@ExtremelyTastyBread]

He didn't answer the question about fast fashion

[@Ivan-77]

#ArnaultMilan

[@j.a.696]

damn who the f was having a tuberculosis attack in the audience

[@blenniperez8614]

Father asotiation exchange armani ilove localitation

[@binghamguevara6814]

Let's get real -- most people know Calvin Klein's name from Back to the Future more than his clothing. The film mythologized this man so much. American icon.

[@LockhartSpain]

Where? I've seen Back to the Future and I don't remember his name featuring in it, yet in every country I've visited, from the UK to the US to Russia to Turkey, I've seen Calvin Klein clothing and cologne.

[@gregdahlen4375]

I'm surprised his own look is so plain here.

[@giuseppe69ize]

Person who is constantly coughing in the audience should of left the room🙄

[@ChrisKelly9]

The person hacking throughout this amazing interviewed needed to be bitch slapped. Have some class, exit the room and have the decency to cough up your lungs in private. Jesus.

[@brainsareus]

Not to be mean, but can someone ''design'' some hearing aids for good old Calvin?

[@twotimes629]

Well you were mean

[@ClickChase]

That first question was weird.

[@ernsteck6582]

Is he affiliated with any particular religious cult that we can identify?😷

[@dgh469]

jews sell need for more buying ... no way

[@officercarlwinslow4864]

But his clothes are plain and ugly

[@twotimes629]

It's call minimal Google it

[@thelaurels13]

Fashion designer? He needs a friggin designer to dress him. The man looks like he’s been dead 3 months, but nobody’s got the heart to tell him.

[@thelaurels13]

@Snutih Nobody said anything about his ankles dimwit! He looks like a fucking corpse.

[@mellejobs7412]

His hankerchief fold is enough to dismiss you entirely

[@CenturioGaius]

@@thelaurels13 and how you look, sitting in front of your screen, maybe scratching your balls and having a big mouth about a 77 years old?

[@kevinvanhorsing5141]

😁😁

[@gregdahlen4375]

Not sure if you're critiquing his fashion or his physical health. If he looks like he's been dead 3 mos do you mean he looks physically unhealthy? Would a designer dressing him change that?