Changes at Calvin Klein Could Redefine American Fashion

American fashion may be about to experience its biggest redefinition in decades. On Tuesday, in yet another example of the upheaval in the fashion world, Calvin Klein announced that its men’s and women’s wear creative directors of more than a decade, Italo Zucchelli and Francisco Costa, were leaving the company to facilitate a “new global creative strategy.” Both lines, as well as all the other categories of the business — presumably including jeans, underwear, fragrance and others — would be united under one “vision.”