Hoffmann befriended American businessman and preservationist Douglas Tompkins, who provided funding for Defensores del Bosque.
In 1968, Tompkins and his wife, Susie, and her friend Jane Tise began selling girls' dresses out of the back of a VW bus; in 1971, they incorporated the booming business under the name "Plain Jane" which later became ESPRIT.
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Tompkins co-founded and ran two clothing companies: the outdoor clothing company The North Face; and with his then-wife Susie, the ESPRIT clothing company.
In 1991, Douglas Tompkins, an American leader of The Conservation Land Trust who is an environmentalist, conservationist and a former businessman, bought a large, semi-abandoned plot of land in the Reñihué River Valley of the Chilean province of Palena.
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