Vogue’s Sarah Harris meets the 83-year-old creative director at Ralph Lauren’s high-rise head office on Manhattan’s Madison Avenue.
His passion was films, and the starry appeal of leading men such as Steve McQueen and Paul Newman: “I always liked the kind of actors who would wear my clothes.” It’s why there is always a narrative to Ralph Lauren: he’s a storyteller who conjures the kind of optimistic world that the world wants to live, to belong, in.
He has spent his five-decade-plus career as master purveyor of the American Dream but he’s also the embodiment of it. His story is well documented: an aspirational young man who started out designing and selling neckties and saying no to Bloomingdale’s when it wanted to place an order, but on condition that he made the ties narrower. Most other start-up designers would have fist- pumped the air and asked,“How narrow?” Not Lauren.
He was the first American designer to open a freestanding boutique in the US , and he had a presence in Europe way ahead of any other American designer. Furthermore, he has long embraced diversity and inclusion, “because I believed it was right”, and his casting has always included all ages and races – a concept most of the industry is only now beginning to understand.
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