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Calvin Klein
Calvin Klein founded his fashion company in New York in 1968, building his early reputation around minimalist, understated American sportswear before achieving major mainstream fame in the late 1970s through a series of provocative designer jeans advertisements starring a teenage Brooke Shields. Klein's advertising, frequently pushing the boundaries of sexual suggestiveness in mainstream fashion marketing, generated significant public controversy at multiple points across his career while also proving highly effective at building brand awareness and driving sales for the company's jeans and underwear lines. The Calvin Klein brand's minimalist aesthetic, favoring clean lines and neutral colors over elaborate ornamentation, became closely associated with a specific vision of sleek, modern American style that distinguished it from more maximalist European fashion house sensibilities. Calvin Klein's combination of his boundary-pushing, sometimes controversial advertising strategy and his minimalist American design aesthetic has made him one of the most commercially and culturally influential fashion designers of the late 20th century.
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Tom Ford
Tom Ford became creative director of Gucci in 1994 and is widely credited with rescuing the then-struggling Italian fashion house from near financial collapse, transforming it into one of the most commercially successful and culturally relevant luxury brands of the late 1990s through his glamorous, sexually charged design aesthetic. Ford later became creative director of Yves Saint Laurent while simultaneously running Gucci, an unusual dual role at two major fashion houses, before eventually leaving both to launch his own independent luxury brand, Tom Ford International, in 2005. Ford's later career expansion into filmmaking, writing and directing the critically acclaimed films "A Single Man" and "Nocturnal Animals," demonstrated a rare successful crossover from fashion design into serious film directing, a transition few other major fashion figures have achieved with comparable critical success. Tom Ford's combination of his historically significant turnaround of Gucci and his rare successful crossover into acclaimed filmmaking has made him one of the most versatile and influential fashion designers of his generation.
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