American+Fashion

American Fashion FASHION IN THE UNITED STATES ​

**The fashion in the United States is generally informal. Clothing in the United States also depends on a variety of factors, including location, venue, and demographic factors such as ethnicity. The Fashion norms are changing depending on the decade**. **The most important brands in the United States are Tommy Hilfiger, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan & Calvin Klein.**

TOMMY HILFIGER

**Tommy Hilfiger was born in New York, but his family is originally Irish and Scottish. He started working at the age of 18, selling jeans and bell-bottom pants.**

**In 1984, he founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. In March 2010, Phillips-Van Heusen, owner of Calvin Klein, bought the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation for $3 billion. **

**RALPH LAUREN **

 **Ralph Lauren (born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer and business executive; best-known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand. From a young age he started working after school to earn money to buy suits.**

** DONNA KARAN **

**Donna Karan (born October 2, 1948) is an American fashion designer and the creator of the //Donna Karan New York// and //DKNY// clothing labels. ****she started her own business "to design modern clothes for modern people". ** **In 1988 Karan, nicknamed //The Queen Of Seventh Avenue// by the time, extended her women's 'Donna Karan New York' line by a less expensive one for younger women, called DKNY. ** 

**CALVIN KLEIN** <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968.In addition to clothing, Klein also gave his name to a range of perfumes, now owned by Coty Inc. The Swatch Group manufactures watches and jewelry under the Calvin Klein Jeans brands. **

<span style="color: #ff0003; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">COCO CHANEL

** Gabrielle Bonheur ** "**Coco**" **Chanel** (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashiondesigner whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, Chanel. [|Faux Fur Vest]

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">BUT...

<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Americans like casual stores where you can buy clothes on fashion, it’s very usual to find the same fashion around the hold country and the “musts” there are always marked by celebrities <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Especially the trends in Louisiana are the same as the rest of USA but with a point marked by Louisiana’s history. <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Unfortunately Americans don’t have any idea of Spanish designers; this is because in USA there’re a lot of designers like Tommy Hilfiger, DKNY, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Carolina Herrera…

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