Autographed Photo

Posting another picture from my collection, this one an autographed photo with clothing designer Tommy Hilfiger and I.

At the age of 18 rather than furthering his education, he started to work in retail. Hilfiger would go to New York City to buy jeans and bell-bottom pants, which he customized and resold at Brown's, a local downtown Elmira store.

He later opened his own store, named The People's Place, around the block in downtown Elmira. Over the years, a number of stores closed in downtown Elmira as shopping traffic shifted to the new Arnot Mall in Horseheads, New York. After seven years, The People's Place went bankrupt, when Hilfiger was 25.

After turning to the design of clothing by designing for the rest of his stores in upstate New York, Hilfiger moved to New York City with his wife Susie. Although he was offered design assistant positions with designers Calvin Klein and Perry Ellis, he turned down the offers despite the fact he was broke.

In 1984, he founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. By 2004 the company had 5,400 employees and revenues in excess of $1.8 billion.
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