Tommy Hilfiger: Founder of Tommy Hilfiger
Business Owner · Fashion & Apparel
Tommy Hilfiger co-founded a chain of jeans stores, launched his own preppy menswear line in the 1980s, took the company public in 1992 and sold it for $1.6 billion in 2006.
About Tommy Hilfiger: Founder of Tommy Hilfiger
Thomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger (born March 24, 1951) is an American fashion designer and the founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. He started his career co-founding People's Place, a chain of jeans and fashion stores in upstate New York, in the 1970s, then began designing preppy clothing for his own eponymous menswear line in the 1980s. The company later expanded into women's clothing and luxury items such as perfumes, and went public in 1992. Hilfiger's collections are often influenced by the fashion of music subcultures and marketed in connection with the music industry, with celebrities such as R&B artist Aaliyah in the 1990s. In 2005 contestants in the CBS reality show The Cut competed for a design job with him. In 2006 he sold his company for $1.6 billion to Apax Partners, which sold it in 2010 to Phillips-Van Heusen for $3 billion, and he remains the company's principal designer, leading its design teams and overseeing the whole creative process. In 2012 he received the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Sources: English Wikipedia (Tommy Hilfiger, accessed September 2026).
Basic Information
Founder, Tommy Hilfiger Corporation; principal designer
Company Details
Tommy Hilfiger Corporation (PVH)
Fashion, Apparel, Fragrance
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