Michael Kors
Michael Kors was born on August 9, 1959, and was raised on Long Island. He moved to
New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, but dropped out after two semesters. Kors launched his women’s collection in 1981 band became a judge on Project
Runway in 2004. First Lady Michelle Obama posed in a Michael Kors dress for her first official portrait. Kors lives in New York City. He is half Scandinavian, half Jewish. His mother is Joan Krystosek Kors, a former model. Designer, Born August 9, 1959, Karl Anderson, Jr. was raised on New York’s Long
Island. As a toddler, Kors worked as a model, appearing in national campaigns for products such as toilet paper and Lucky Charms cereal. Kors’ biological parents split when he was quite young, and he got his new name at age 5 when his mother married businessman Bill Kors. My mother said, “You’re getting a new last name, so why don’t you pick a new first name?” Kors said. He chose Michael as his first name and his second-favorite, David, as his middle name. His mother also allowed him to design her wedding dress. Kors, already a fashion addict, was thrilled with the prospect. He had two aims as a child, to be a movie star or a fashion designer. He describes himself not only as a child, but as a companion to his mother, a former Revlon model and shopaholic, who brought him up alone. At 4 years old, he modeled in cereal commercials and by the time he was a teenager, he was taking the train to Manhattan to study acting. His grandparents would show him beautiful fabrics and show him the difference between quality and not. As a child he studied the fashion sketches in the New York Times newspaper. From their suburban home in Merrick, New York, Kors scavenged every bit of fashion intelligence he could gather. “I practically hyperventilated every month when Vogue arrived, and
I loved shopping,” he said. Kors moved to New York City in the 1970s to attend the Fashion
Institute of Technology. He
New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology, but dropped out after two semesters. Kors launched his women’s collection in 1981 band became a judge on Project
Runway in 2004. First Lady Michelle Obama posed in a Michael Kors dress for her first official portrait. Kors lives in New York City. He is half Scandinavian, half Jewish. His mother is Joan Krystosek Kors, a former model. Designer, Born August 9, 1959, Karl Anderson, Jr. was raised on New York’s Long
Island. As a toddler, Kors worked as a model, appearing in national campaigns for products such as toilet paper and Lucky Charms cereal. Kors’ biological parents split when he was quite young, and he got his new name at age 5 when his mother married businessman Bill Kors. My mother said, “You’re getting a new last name, so why don’t you pick a new first name?” Kors said. He chose Michael as his first name and his second-favorite, David, as his middle name. His mother also allowed him to design her wedding dress. Kors, already a fashion addict, was thrilled with the prospect. He had two aims as a child, to be a movie star or a fashion designer. He describes himself not only as a child, but as a companion to his mother, a former Revlon model and shopaholic, who brought him up alone. At 4 years old, he modeled in cereal commercials and by the time he was a teenager, he was taking the train to Manhattan to study acting. His grandparents would show him beautiful fabrics and show him the difference between quality and not. As a child he studied the fashion sketches in the New York Times newspaper. From their suburban home in Merrick, New York, Kors scavenged every bit of fashion intelligence he could gather. “I practically hyperventilated every month when Vogue arrived, and
I loved shopping,” he said. Kors moved to New York City in the 1970s to attend the Fashion
Institute of Technology. He