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living the dream

It’s 1969, man’s just landed on the moon, Woodstock’s worked its way into music festival lore, and in the small town of Elmira, upstate New York—former home of American literary figure Mark Twain—a high-school kid with big dreams called Thomas Jacob Hilfiger starts selling bell-bottom jeans out of the back of his van.

Young Tommy studies the business of fashion after school, makes his way to the Big Apple, works for various labels, eventually founds his own, then begins a decades-long professional adventure that sees him become a household name. Just like

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