American Dreamer
My Life in Fashion & Business
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October 1, 2016
A memoir from the famed fashion designer.Born in Elmira, New York, in 1951, Hilfiger had eight siblings and came of age during the 1960s, when bell-bottoms, fringed leather vests, sandals, and long hair on men were all the rage. Dyslexia, an abusive father, and a full household turned him into a dreamer from an early age, and his five sisters made him aware of the current fashions. While still in high school, Hilfiger and two of his friends opened a clothing shop in an unused basement and found success. After attending a boutique show in New York City, Hilfiger had an epiphany. "I had never given real thought to designing, he writes, but at that moment it came to me: This is what I want to do in life. I want to create a line of clothes. I want to be the one who picks the colors, the fabrics, who designs the pockets. "Of course, he went on to design far more than just one line of clothing, creating a global fashion empire in the process. Hilfiger's autobiography is typically full of family stories and candid assessments of his personal successes and failures. While chronicling the rises and falls of his various clothing endeavors, he openly discusses his early drug use and partying, his love of music, his father's abusive nature, his siblings, his marriage and subsequent children, his divorce, and his second marriage. His commentary provides a unique look into the fashion world and helps explain how clothing can make a statement based simply on a particular style of stitching or pocket design. The Tommy Hilfiger brand is known for its "preppy, all-American classics," and Hilfiger fits the bill for an American dreamer who succeeded in grabbing the American dream. An honest, straightforward, mostly entertaining autobiography of the man who created a classic yet hip line of clothing.
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October 1, 2016
Growing up as one of nine children in Elmira, New York, in the 1950s, Hilfiger could hardly imagine that one day he'd be jet-setting to Hong Kong and India, London and Paris, rubbing elbows with rock-and-roll royalty such as Mick Jagger, and underwriting some of the world's most charitable causes. Yet with a tenacity remarkable in a teenager of the happenin' 1960s, Hilfiger channeled his eye for detail and his flair for fashion into a basement shop selling bell bottoms and tie-dye shirts as fast as the local college crowd could buy them. Now one of the best-recognized names in the industry, Hilfiger didn't rise to international acclaim either steadily or surely and certainly not predictably. As he recounts the deals gone bad and the trusts betrayed, Hilfiger also relates with wide-eyed wonder the achievements and triumphs that have made his brand a go-to staple of hip clothing for three very different decades. Fashionistas and business gurus alike will glean important lessons from Hilfiger's rags-to-riches rag-trade story.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
June 15, 2016
Popular fashion designer Hilfiger celebrates the 30th anniversary of his company's founding by narrating his life, from his working-class Elmira, NY, roots and opening his first boutique at age 18 to his wild youth in late Sixties and early Seventies New York City and his smart blend of fashion and celebrity in the 1990s.
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