'This is crazy!' Tommy Hilfiger reveals details of weird meeting with Michael Jackson in Neverland 'throne room' and says his kids were dressed like the Von Trapp children

By Bobbie Whiteman For Dailymail.com

Published: 20:47 GMT, 26 October 2016 | Updated: 21:42 GMT, 26 October 2016

Tommy Hilfiger has revealed details of a very strange encounter with Michael Jackson. 

The King of Pop contacted the designer during the 1990s when he wanted to create a branded clothing line.

Tommy, now 65, was summoned to the singer's palatial Neverland ranch in Los Olivos, California, for the surreal meeting, according to his new book, American Dreamer: My Life In Fashion & Business.

Pop and fashion: Tommy Hilfiger has described his bizarre meeting with Michael Jackson in the early 1990s when the King Of Pop wanted to create a branded clothing line, in new book

The designer took along his daughter Ally, now 31, and brother Andy, according to an excerpt published in Page Six on Tuesday.

The trio landed on the lawn in a helicopter and were picked up by 'a choo-choo train, with a conductor and everything,' Tommy wrote.

''We were driving through Neverland, and no one was there. As we passed the Ferris wheel, it started up. Every seat was empty. We saw teacup rides and a racetrack and an amphitheater, all deserted.

'We pulled up in front of the house, and a butler came out wearing white gloves. 'Hello,' he said. 'Michael will be coming; he is expecting you.'

Designer dish:  Tommy, with wife Dee at the Princess Grace Awards Gala at Cipriani 25 Broadway on Monday in New York, said Jacko was 'sitting on a throne' when they met

'We were standing in front of this massive gingerbread-style house when a giraffe walked by, followed by a string of baby elephants. Ally and Andy were looking at each other, like 'This is crazy!' '

All the info: The 65-year-old described the bizarre meeting in his new biography

And when Tommy met Michael in his office he was wearing sunglasses and 'was sitting in an enormous gold-and-burgundy throne...His face was heavily made up and he had a Band-Aid across his nose.

'He was fidgety. He said, 'We really have to do this clothing line together. I have millions of fans all over the world who are waiting for it.' He spoke in the same wispy voice we had all grown accustomed to.'

Meanwhile, Tommy said Michael's kids Prince, now 14, and Paris, now 18, were dressed bizarrely like the Von Trapp children in The Sound Of Music.

'They came barreling down the stairs dressed...in velveteen knickers, dirndl jumper, ruffled blouses, patent leather shoes, each in full makeup, their hair bleached blond with dark roots. Blanket was an infant in nanny's arms.'

Tommy said he and his partners passed on the deal with the pop icon, who died of a drug overdose in 2009 at age 50. He said they had 'bigger deals in mind' at the time and were negotiating to buy Calvin Klein.

'Michael continued to call and ask us to reconsider, but our decision was firm, and he never did the clothing line,' Tommy wrote.

His last tour: Michael had announced his Summer residency, This Is It,  at London's O2 Arena at the time of his death from a drugs overdose in 2009