Calvin Klein

Calvin Klein is one of the defining names of American fashion: a designer who built a global label on the clean line — clothing reduced to cut, cloth and proportion, and presented with an instinct for imagery that made his jeans, underwear and fragrances as famous as his tailored clothes. This page is the main door to his record in this guide.

From here, the series links lead to his collections, dresses and fall fashions pages in this item, with his fashion week, menswear, news, profiles, runway, spring fashions and womenswear pages linked in the directory below. The search routes in the references run Calvin Klein news, photo and video searches, and the official Calvin Klein website is linked there as well.

Illustrative image created for this guide — an artistic impression, not this designer's own garments.

The Klein Proposition

Fashion designers are interesting creatures — creative, innovative, sometimes temperamental — and Klein's career is the American proof of what focus adds to talent. From his first coat-and-dress shop in 1968, the proposition never varied: remove everything unnecessary, and let line and fabric carry the design. Jeans made the name a phenomenon in the late 1970s; underwear and fragrance — Obsession, and CK One in 1994 — made it a worldwide vocabulary.

The label's structure reflects that reach: tailored collection clothing at the top, dresses and sportswear in the middle, and the jeans and underwear lines carrying the name to everyone. Readers following the record from this page can trace each level — the collections page for the runway register, the dresses page for the garment most associated with his minimalism, and the season pages for the rhythm of the whole.

News, Photos and Video

This page's route set — news, photos and videos — suits a designer whose fame was always partly photographic. Klein's advertising imagery is a subject in its own right in fashion history, and the searches linked in the references gather it alongside current coverage of the brand. Men's and women's routes are both provided in the directory links: his menswear and womenswear pages treat the two halves of the wardrobe separately.

Use the series block to move through the pages built so far, and the directory links for the rest of his record — fashion week, profiles and runway among them. The designer definition section, also linked, places him in the guide's terminology: the minimalist against whom the section's maximalists are measured.

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