Fashion Icons Encyclopedia. Calvin Klein.

In the 1960s, Calvin Klein began by creating coats. His clothing' minimalism, like that of his generation's peers, imprinted personality on American fashion and gave New York Fashion Week its own identity in comparison to the already established catwalks in Paris and Milan. Calvin Klein, despite the simplicity and elegance of its offering, has become one of the most provocative, suggestive, and contentious brands in the business, thanks to its underwear, which is one of the house's main economic bastions. Fashion. Klein's commercials have featured Brooke Shields, Kate Moss, and Mark Wahlberg in shorts, resulting in campaigns that are already part of American visual culture's recent past.

Klein was born and raised in the Bronx, and was a member of New York's legendary Studio 54 during its heyday. Probably, this was repulsive to a young jude who, one day, decided to put his name on a pair of jeans -known as "designer jeans"- and turn his business into a gold mine. Firm defender of fashion as a way of life, he expanded his empire to include the worlds of perfumes –his is the first unisex perfume in history-, interior clothing -, and young people with his most equivocal line, CK.