Thomas Jacob Hilfiger was born March 24, 1951 in the USA. He grew up in an Irish Catholic family.
Even very young opened its first own store, called The People’s Place youth fashion, but after a few years he went bankrupt. Refusing offers of employment in various fashion houses, founded in 1984, Tommy Hilfiger Corporation.
Still no one know he launched his clothes, saying: “The best designers of clothes in the world are Ralph Lauren, Perry Ellis, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.” From then he presents himself as one of the world’s best designers. The company is gaining popularity in 1992 when the present one of the most remarkable men their collections. In 1995 he became a designer of the year.
Ten years later sold the company to Apax Partners for 1.6 billion dollars. His name was voted on the occasion of various gossip, one of them remarks that if he knew that his clothes would be worn by African-Americans and Asians, would not have created them so good. This hearing is contradicted official in the Oprah Winfrey show on May 2, 2007, when she called these words “big fat lie”.