Learn about the life, success and style of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren.
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Ralph Lauren Fashion Designer Profile
Female: With smart, elegant and casual outfits, he has become America’s most quintessential designer. The man behind it all is Ralph Lauren.
Specializing in high and casual and semi-formal wear for men, women, and children as well as branching out into accessories, fragrances and house wares, his signature is staying with elegant, classic wear for the stylish country club set has turned Lauren into one of the most sought after designers that has managed to grow a brand into a billion dollar business.
Ralph Lauren is fashion.
Ralph: That the focus from this is always about women looking beautiful and looking sexy and looking anywhere they want to look but it’s really about beauty and flattering clothes.
Female: Lauren’s victory though came from a lot of hard work and effort. Prior to creating Ralph Lauren, he worked for Brook’s brothers as a salesman and started his own line of men’s ties.
Ralph Lauren has become one of the world’s best loved designers. With clad shirts, cashmere sweaters and twig jackets, one also using a mixture of fabrics such as mitts and silks, cottons, sequins, leather, and chiffon, his styles and designs have long this all to experience the upper class lifestyle without shedding off. And so, from humble beginnings in the late 60’s and with thanks to a $50,000.00 loan, Polo Ralph Lauren was born and is growing to the legendary brand it is today with the now iconic polo player featuring many of his designs.
By 1969, he had boutique store located in the Manhattan Department Store. However, by 1971, Lauren launched his best women’s collection and opened his first retail store on Beverly Hills’ famous Rodeo drawing. This was the first of countless stores to follow and by 1981, the Ralph Lauren run had gone in Colombo. With the opening that’s first international store in London’s Borne Street, an up-market shopping district.
He was one of the first designers to include in his brand house ware and furniture and one of the first American designers to take his brand which has a myriad of different labels overseas. In 1997, Polo Ralph Lauren became a public company and traded on the New York stock exchange represented by the symbol RL. Laurence stomped this hot on Wall Street and then its first day of trading is the most active stomp from the exchange.
Venturing now into other markets and to show you support for important causes, Lauren and the Polo Ralph foundation organized campaigns such as Pink Pony which is an international enterprise that aims to support and care for women with breast cancer. This foundation reaches across the world including the United States, France, U.K., Germany, and Japan and with sales of the Pink Pony merchandise. Polo Ralph Lauren has been able to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Center.
Laurence place in fashion is undeniable which is why he is the number one choice for many celebrities when it comes to showing off their outfits on the red carpet. His designs have a style of elegance about them which helps Hollywood leading ladies look glamorous at the major award ceremonies.
He has also collaborated with Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz with his women’s fragrances. Together they created Glamorous and after of its success, he partnered up again for Day Lush, a scent for everyday wear.
Ralph Lauren the man is true one of the legends in the fashion industry who has managed to create one of the most influential brands the world has seen.
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