Complete the biography of fashion designer Calvin Klein by putting the verbs in brackets into the most appropriate tense - past simple or past continuous. Calvin Klein was born on November 19 1942 in the Bronx, New York. As a teenager he (11) (love) fashion and drawing, and (12) (spend) many hours drawing pictures of women in suits and dresses. After graduating from the High School of Art and Design, he studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. It was while he (13) (study) there that he met Jayne Centre. They
(14) (get) married in 1964.
Klein (15) (launch) his own clothing company in 1968. It was a very small business then, but a buyer from a famous New York department store came to view his designs and was impressed with what he saw. He (16) (buy) $50,000 worth of merchandise and (17) (display) it in his shop windows. Amazingly, at that time just one local seamstress (18) (work) for Klein, but this sale was the starting point of Klein’s success, which (19) (continue) rapidly after he launched his line of designer sportswear. Klein’s designer jeans became enormously popular in the early 1970s, when shops (20) (sell) over 40,000 pairs a week. From 1981 onwards the Calvin Klein label expanded to include underwear, fragrances and also home decor, and the company now exceeds $6 billion in annual sales.