CALVIN KLEIN / AMERICAN FASHION / DESIGNER GUIDES

Fashion Industry Broadcast and Style Planet TV are proud to bring you their new Netflix Original series ‘The Girl’s Guides to the World of Designer Fashion’. This new 6 part series explores the seductive world of designer fashion. Series 1. The History of Lingerie Series 2. The Legend of the Designer Bag Series 3. The Mystery of the High Heel Series 4. American Fashion Series 5. Italian Fashion Series 6. Paris Fashion In This Series 5 We Look at the World of American Designer Fashion INTRO TEXT In this Series we look at the titans of American fashion. The taste makers who’s designs have intrinsically connected us to deeper elements of the American experience. Whether people have dressed in their brands to make a political statement, to assert their class status, or simply to be irreverent, these titans have created a lasting American footprint on the world’s fashion walk of fame.  CALVIN KLEIN - AMERICANS From an early age Calvin Klein knew he was destined for a life in the fashion world. Influenced by his Jewish mother and grandmother’s love of clothing, Calvin grew up in a fashion forward household in The Bronx, New York, immersed in the designing and making of clothes. Of Hungarian and Austrian descent, Klein’s immigrant story is atypical. He earned two scholarships to both the New York High School of Art and Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and though he never graduated his design career was launched with the help of Baron de Gunzburg. This young A