Calvin Klein

I think fantasies are for the birds. Anything I wanted to do, I did. If there’s something I want, nothing stops me.

Calvin Klein

The money is not that important to me, whether it’s $800,000,000, a billion or two billion.

Calvin Klein

I don’t think about my fame very much and I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.

Calvin Klein

I’ve been strong and determined all my life about many things I’ve wanted.

Calvin Klein

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

Calvin Klein

You can’t advertise for one group. Otherwise, you end up having a very small business!

Calvin Klein

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

Calvin Klein

Some people feel that what we’re doing makes no sense, that it’s just a waste of money. But it’s working.

Calvin Klein

Anything we do in advertising is controversial. If it’s provocative and sensual and related to what we’re selling, I’m willing to take the chance. I have fun with the ads.

Calvin Klein

I guess I don’t have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don’t think I’d like it.

Calvin Klein

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I’m like nails. I will kill.

Calvin Klein

The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.

Calvin Klein

I won’t allow myself to have tremendous fear.

Calvin Klein

I’ve met people who didn’t even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

Calvin Klein

I want everyone I can get. Jews, Catholics, gays straights, you name it!

Calvin Klein

It’s fun seeing my label on someone’s behind – I like that.

Calvin Klein

I create the underwear to make people look sexy. So my point is that when I advertise it, for sure I’m going to show it to its greatest advantage. And, I’m going to do it on somebody who has an excellent body, male or female, doesn’t matter.

Calvin Klein

I’m crazy, and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Calvin Klein

I learned a lot, because he threw me into the snake pit. It’s a fiercely competitive business, and Millstein was a perfect example of that world.

Calvin Klein

Commercials capture your attention, that’s all.

Calvin Klein

My men’s-underwear print ads are very popular!

Calvin Klein

I’m not a politician and don’t want any part of politics.

Calvin Klein

People have done it without having formal training in design, but I don’t hire people unless they’ve been formally trained. I look for people who really are talented, creative, inventive, modern in thinking and hard working. Because this is – we’re in a very hard, tough business.

Calvin Klein

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.

Calvin Klein

American designers weren’t considered very important then. We were considered inferior – copyists of the Europeans, lucky if we got a front-row seat at a French couture collection.

Calvin Klein

I’ve never been one to see women in ruffles and all kind of fanciful apparel. To me it’s just silly.

Calvin Klein

The next cKone generation has different values and communicates in a very modern way. When we take this campaign to email, it makes it very personal.

Calvin Klein

There’s an awareness of fashion in this country, and it’s not limited to gay people. If business were geared toward selling just to gay people, we wouldn’t have much of a business and neither would anyone else, because that group is not big enough to support it.

Calvin Klein

There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. In the past, the wife bought all the husband’s clothes, and that happens a lot less today. American men are more aware of fashion; they’re not afraid of it and they like clothes better and are willing to spend more time and money choosing them.

Calvin Klein

I don’t always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I’d like to maintain.

Calvin Clein

Fashion is about selling clothes. I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Calvin Klein

I get either very excited about something or very depressed.

Calvin Klein

Doing everything as well as possible meant survival.

Calvin Klein

Fashion is about change. It’s fun to keep changing and to change the silhouettes, to change the fabrics and to change the colour.

Calvin Klein

Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn’t be threatened by the ads I do.

Calvin Klein

I don’t trust a lot of journalists.

Calvin Klein

What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!

Calvin Klein

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

Calvin Klein

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Calvin Klein

Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men’s fashion. How much can you do with men’s clothes?

Calvin Klein

I’m not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

Calvin Klein

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it’s not as if every gay person is a great creator.

Calvin KLein