Kenneth Cole
Born on March 23, 1954, Kenneth Cole is an American fashion designer who grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
Cole attended John L. Miller Great Neck North High School and later went on to study at Emory University. Those two institutions represent the formal educational background on record for him before he entered the fashion industry as a designer.
As a fashion designer and citizen of the United States, Cole works in English and is documented in several international library authority systems. The Library of Congress lists him under the authorized label "Cole, Kenneth," with the identifier n2003100932. He also appears in the Virtual International Authority File under VIAF ID 70771474 and in the German National Library under GND ID 1060276674.
That presence across multiple cataloguing systems reflects the documented scope of his professional output as a fashion designer born in Brooklyn in the mid-twentieth century.
Quotes by Kenneth Cole
Giving back is something most companies look to do at certain times of the year. We as a company look to do it all year.
Through my ongoing work as a UNAIDS Ambassador and with the End AIDS Coalition, I remain personally committed to aligning resources and galvanizing global action and working with amfAR to make AIDS history.
In my opinion, being able to do some form of service is a gift. The one that provides the service is the greatest beneficiary - I will attest to it.
None of what I do is political. My messages are social and human messages. In many cases, they've been politicized but they are so much bigger than that.
Over the years, I have found a way to use this business and this platform to talk with people about important issues. To the degree you can bring a sense of purpose to what you do, it makes the relationship with the customer that much more meaningful and purposeful.
What people are consuming is what things represent. It's people defining themselves through what they wear.
Asking people for money is a hard thing to do. But helping people do the right thing is not hard. So I often call people up and suggest ways they can spend their money to make a meaningful impact, and I don't feel I've asked them for money.
My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness like that since the '60s - but most people were talking about hunger in Africa. Nobody was talking about this really ominous circumstance here in the U.S. because of this fear of stigma.