Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren listen ; born Ralph Lifshitz; October 1, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and business executive, best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation clothing company, a global multi-billion-dollar enterprise. He has also become well known for his collection of rare automobiles, some of which have been displayed in museum exhibits. Lauren stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of the company in September 2015 but remains its Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer. As of January 2015, Forbes estimates his...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth14 October 1939
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.
I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.
What's interesting about fashion is it's a world, and I think that's what I've done - I've made a contribution and I think I've built a world. The world is beyond just clothes. Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality.
I like magazines. I love to look at a magazine. But the magazines have got to get better. Everything pushes someone else to get better. So the Internet pushes the magazines.
I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.
My day is pretty much busy. I do 15 million things in the course of a day. I'm holding up I think. I don't know how I look, but I think I'm holding up.
I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.
You have to create something from nothing.
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
The best thing you can do is go away from this saying, 'I can do this too,' because it's all possible and I'm living proof.
I have always been inspired by the dream of America-families in the country, weathered trucks and farmhouses; sailing off the coast of Maine; following dirt roads in an old wood-paneled station wagon; a convertible filled with young college kids sporting crew cuts and sweatshirts and frayed sneakers.