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Tommy Hilfiger B.V. (/ h ɪ l ˈ f ɪ ɡ ər /; hil-FIG-ər), formerly known as Tommy Hilfiger Corporation and Tommy Hilfiger Inc., is an American clothing brand that manufactures apparel and licensed products such as footwear, accessories, fragrances and home furnishings. [3]
Thomas Jacob Hilfiger (/ h ɪ l ˈ f ɪ ɡ ər / hil-FIG-ər; born March 24, 1951) [1] is an American fashion designer and the founder of Tommy Hilfiger Corporation. [2]After starting his career by co-founding a chain of jeans/fashion stores called People's Place in upstate New York in the 1970s, he began designing preppy clothing for his own eponymous menswear line in the 1980s.
In the United Kingdom, tracksuits became popular due to Tommie Smith and John Carlos' black power salute during the 1968 Olympics and Bob Marley's Jamaican tracksuit. Young white working-class men in the UK often wore tracksuits to football games during the 1980s and the clothing was associated with football hooliganism at the time. [1]