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
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 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.
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 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.
I've always admired a woman who can dress for all occasions-someo ne who's not fashion crazy,but you always want to look like her.
I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.
Black is not as good as Purple.
Love the fun of clothes, not the status of fashion.
I am not looking like Armani today and somebody else tomorrow. I look like Ralph Lauren. And my goal is to constantly move in fashion and move in style without giving up what I am.
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
When you think of the blur of all the brands that are out there, the ones you believe in and the ones you remember, like Chanel and Armani, are the ones that stand for something. Fashion is about establishing an image that consumers can adapt to their own individuality. And it's an image that can change, that can evolve. It doesn't reinvent itself every two years.
Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.
I'm interested in longevity, timelessness, style - not fashion.