Tommy Hilfiger Quotes

• I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody’s presents – everybody’s – so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

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• I looked at the rap community like street kids wanting their own brand. But now I look at that period with the rappers in the 90s as a trend of the moment. What it taught me was never to follow a trend, because trends move on.

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• Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

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• But I think, if you’re in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that’s just the way it is.

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• I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.

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• I currently live in the Plaza in New York and I love it – all that history, all those interesting stories.

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• I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

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• I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

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• I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.

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• I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

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• I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

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• I think it’s dangerous to think that you’re successful, because then you become complacent.

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• I thought, if I went into business I’d be able to control my own destiny.

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• If I see someone wearing Hilfiger it makes me proud, but then I wonder what I could do to make the style more relevant for them next year?

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• I’m a designer of more than clothes. I am a designer of a very creative concept.

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• It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.

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• I’ve never tried to do couture, because it’s a whole different beast.

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• One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that’s how people live.

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• In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

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• My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot.

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Tommy Hilfiger (32)

Birth:	24th March, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Fashion Designer

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