A biography for Calvin Kleinhasn’t been written yet.
“AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.”
“If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.”
“People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.”
“If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.”
“I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.”
“Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.”
“What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!”
“You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.”
“It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.”
“No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.”
“I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.”
“We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.”
“I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.”
“I don't think about my fame very much.”
“I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.”
“I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.”
“I don't trust a lot of journalists.”
“My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!”
“People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.”
“Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.”