Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world’s leading designer lifestyle brands and is internationally recognized for celebrating the essence of classic American cool style, featuring preppy with a twist designs. Under Hilfiger’s guidance, vision, and ...

Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world’s leading designer lifestyle brands and is internationally recognized for celebrating the essence of classic American cool style, featuring preppy with a twist designs. Under Hilfiger’s guidance, vision, and leadership as Principal Designer, the Tommy Hilfiger Group has become one of the world’s few international brands for apparel, accessories and home. Hilfiger introduced his first signature collection in 1985 by modernizing button-down shirts, chinos, and other time-honored classics with updated fits and details. The relaxed, youthful attitude of his first designs has remained a distinctive hallmark throughout all of Hilfiger’s subsequent collections. The business has grown from a single menswear collection in 1985 to a global lifestyle brand achieving over US $6.4 billion dollars in retail sales in 2013. There are over 1,400 Tommy Hilfiger stores in more than 90 countries on five continents. In 1995, Hilfiger launched The Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation in an effort to give back on a global scale through educational and cultural programs including the Fresh Air Fund, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project, Breast Health International and the Millennium Promise initiative to eliminate extreme poverty in Africa. In 2010, Millennium Promise named Hilfiger as its first MDG (Millennium Development Goals) Global Leader. Hilfiger’s vast body of influence was honored in 2012 by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, which presented him with the CFDA’s prestigious Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.