Fashion designer Calvin Klein, 83, and his model boyfriend Kevin Baker, 36, were seen leaving Gold's Gym in Venice, Los Angeles, on Monday, both wearing matching black long-sleeved tops and grey cargo pants. The couple, who have been together for around a decade, are notoriously private about their relationship.
Their only sartorial difference was footwear: Klein wore dark Nike sneakers, while Baker opted for white Converse. The pair were first publicly spotted together in 2016 at the Mint Luxury Conference in Mumbai, India, and later attended the Broadway opening of American Psycho and the Future of Fashion Runway Show that same year.
Baker, a model who has appeared in magazines such as Supplementaire and Homme Style, has been linked to agencies like Nous and Heffner. He has kept a low profile in recent years, with no public social media presence. Before Baker, Klein had a two-year relationship with model Nicholas Gruber, who was 20 at the time, while Klein was 68.
Klein has been married twice: to Jayne Centre from 1965 to 1974, with whom he has a daughter, Marci Klein, and to his assistant Kelly Rector from 1986 to 1996, though their divorce was finalised in 2006. He publicly came out as bisexual in 2006, telling Vanity Fair in 2008: 'I've experienced sex with men, with women. I've fallen in love with women. I've married women. And I have a family.'
Since stepping down from Calvin Klein Inc. in 2003, Klein has maintained a relatively low profile. The company, co-founded with Barry Schwartz in 1968, was sold to Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (now PVH Corp.) for an estimated $700 million, with Klein and Schwartz each receiving $215 million in cash and stock initially, plus additional payouts of up to $270 million in subsequent years.
