Fashion guru Calvin Klein to share his story

If the designer Calvin Klein started his own clothing company in New York in 1968, he had many friends in the business world, which discourages him, saying that it was a bad time. Small heard what they had to say. Then he ignored their advice. "There are always people who think this is a bad time," the fashion icon in Manhattan said in a phone interview last week. "You just feel really, be passionate and be prepared in the fashion world and give people something they do not already say. Not I, I invented something that is new or different, but I have something that little vision had other clothes that were available. "In the world of fashion, you always have the option, if you do something different from everyone else." Small vision was very different. He embraced the simplicity, purity and minimalism, and this is an approach that has come at the right moment. Small gold found, move to build a brand to a world power, and widely regarded as the leading name in American fashion. By 7 clock on Wednesday, it will move to the stage win and his story. Small-conference part of the University of Evansville series of the Institute, the flagship event of the Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana. The event is free and open to the public. "I tell this story to students or entrepreneurs because many people who run companies - including global companies - has not been started." He said "It's an interesting story how to start something with a business standpoint, to build, and transform it into a brand that is known throughout the world. " Klein was born in the Bronx Jewish middle class parents, grew up with a fondness for drawing and knowledge that he wanted to be a designer. He said he did. From its exposure to the taste of his clothes-conscious mother and grandmother, whom he benefited both attributes to help develop their own style If Klein opened its doors in 1969, he started small and had no idea where things might could find. It started with a handful of dresses and coats, fast to a line of designer sportswear and early 1970s, his first designer blue jeans pulled. Jeans that had his name on the back of the bag, finally became a cultural phenomenon ("you want to know what Aided Nothing between me and my Calvins?.") Through a series of early 1980s television advertising with actress Brooke Shields As the company steadily expanded its range and is profitable, said Klein logistics management company does not compromise his creativity. "It was not a conflict," he said. "You are creative and inspired to create the people. At the same time, it is a business and needs to make a profit. And it can happen. It's not easy. It takes a lot of work and a lot of dedication and passion and talent, but it anything is possible. " In December 2002, Klein was finally his company Phillips-Van Heusen blouse sold for a reported $ 400 million in cash, $ 30 million in shares and potentially hundreds of millions more in royalties. The 69-year-old Klein has remained very active in the fashion world, but he says it needs more time to share his story with anyone interested - everyone from college students to executives. He also said he will continue to see the potential in the future of fashion. "For me personally, this is more than talk groups to share the work with schools and what I do with people who are interested in so that I can be useful and make a bit of what I know to be lived," he said . "And I think people are becoming more interested in the clothes. "There may be opportunities to buy, but in the end we are still creating," he said. "I feel there are still opportunities for those who have something special to offer. It is possible to create businesses or work in a company and a part of the management and running can be anything."