A new HBO documentary peeks behind RalphLauren's meticulously crafted world to reveal the emotion within.
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“It’s not easy having someone write about you, or seeing a film about you,” Lauren admits. He and I are seated on a long white couch in the cozy living room of the Montauk, Long Island, beach house he shares with his wife of 55 years, Ricky. The place is not the sort of ego monument common to other enclaves in the East End.
The documentary, almost three years in the making, is rich with the type of starry testimonials you’d expect: There is commentary from fellow designers, including Calvin Klein and the late Karl Lagerfeld, along with Oscar winners, fashion editors, and critics—even a former Secretary of State who nearly became president.
“There’s a romance to Ralph,” says Vera Wang, who worked as a design director for Lauren in the late 1980s before launching her own brand. “When you look at the breadth of what he’s done, there has to be this sense of romance about life.”isn’t a fashion movie. It’s about family. Ralph and Ricky married young, and they remain close to their children, Andrew, David, and Dylan.
“There are good days and bad days,” Lauren says. “Stock goes up, and all of a sudden you’re a genius. Stock goes down—‘What’s happening to Ralph Lauren? Is he getting old?’ Those are the questions you live with, and I live with them.”
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