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Fashion designer

Ralph Lauren, a renowned American fashion designer, was born on October 14, 1939. His brand, Ralph Lauren, is recognized worldwide for its diverse range of products from clothing to home goods. Lauren's pursuit of classic aesthetics and interpretation of the American lifestyle have won him a global fan base.

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“Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness.”

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“Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.”

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“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.”

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“My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.”

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“I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.”

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“I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do and that are not into the showbiz.”

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“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.”

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“I think the people who work with me are people who love style themselves. I'm leaving the office and they're still working. They're passionate.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I exercise at the gym with a trainer. I feel it's very healthy, very important - important for everybody. I feel it's good for you. It makes you feel better. It loosens you up a little bit.”

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Looks Courses Millions Know How Busy

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“..It's not about age...I believe women of all ages can wear anything.”

Believe Age I Believe Fashion Designer

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“I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.”

Thinking Classic Make You Think

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“More than ever I'm proud to be an American, to live in a country that respects the rights of all to marry whomever they love. The Supreme Court decision gives new meaning to the freedoms we cherish.”

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“As I started to buy cars, I didn't know that I was building a collection. I just wanted the cars I was dreaming about. Once you drive a good one, it is like having a fever.”

Knows Dream Wanted Car Building Collections Fever

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“Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about each car that you come to love, whether it's the look, the steering wheel, the way it drives, or even the way it drives differently when you put the top up. They all have identities; they have spirits and characteristics that are truly endearing in some way.”

Way Looks Children Littles Hard Spirit Special Car Identity Characteristics Wheels Little Things Steering Endearing

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“I can drive a certain car one day with great pleasure, and the next day I'll be disappointed that the experience isn't as good as the day before. These cars have moods that change with the weather, or with the driver's own moods.”

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“Success isn't based on 'look what I can do!' but more on an inner sense of self and believing you have something to say in your own consistent way. And I think we all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.”

Thinking World Way Believe Looks I Can Self Fighting Can Do Style Taste Unique Consistent Conform Sense Of Self Unique Style

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“When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."”

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“I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.”

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“Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.”

Dream Inspiration Design Clothes Invention Perspiration

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“I didn't have a vision as in, This is where I'm going. I had a vision as in, "This is what I love to do."”

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“I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing.”

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“As a kid, I was always into clothes, but I didn't have the money to buy them. When I'd get my brothers' hand-me-downs, there was an energy in me that made me say, "I want to get my own things, to make my own statement." Somewhere along the line, that energy - coupled with my exposure, through movies, to a world I hadn't known - turned into something.”

World Kids Energy

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“I never had a preconceived plan. When you go to a movie and watch someone in the role of his or her life, or when the chairman of the board comes into the room wearing a cool look, it remains in your mind. I love Cary Grant because I like the roles he played. I said, "I want to be that guy." I want to be funny, suave, and a good athlete. I don't have to do a focus group to know what people want. I feel it.”

People Mind Guy Focus Athlete

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“I try to find people who love and believe in what I do - and people I can respect because they do what I don't do. I've had to bring in financial people and put them in positions where they could tell me, "Ralph, let's not do that."”

People Trying Believe Financial

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“Having success at an early age gave me more of a sense of what's important in life rather than always driving to make it.”

Important Age Driving

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“I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim. Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.”

Thinking Fashion Victim Plenty

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“If I get to the point where I don't like my clothes, I'm in big trouble.”

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“When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"”

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“Sometimes when I walk into one of my own stores, I look at the display and say, "This looks so good - I want to buy it." Yet other times I walk in and the displays and mannequins will be all wrong, and I don't want to buy anything. When a customer walks into a store, she's looking for inspiration. So I'm tuned in to people, and I care about what they need and who they are.”

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“I was talking to Donna Karan at an event and she said, "You know, Ralph, I still don't feel rich."”

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“I was sometimes embarrassed about making it - people look at you in a different way. You become this rich guy with the house. I wouldn't trade my life for anyone else's, but I've sometimes felt set apart from the people I work with. They think, "You're rich - you don't have problems."”

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“What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.”

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“I always had a sense of people and would talk with them. I talk to my doorman. I talk to everybody I work with. I enjoy it. I like being part of a real life. I love dreams. I love glamour. I love being invited to great places. But I don't really care if I go, as long as I'm invited. I get invited to so many things, but I'd rather go have a hamburger or see a movie.”

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“And I'm excited when I find somebody stimulating to talk with. That's one of the great treasures in life.”

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“I don't design clothes, I design dreams.”

“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.”

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Should Looks Beautiful Fashion Victim Costumes

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“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.”

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“Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.”

“Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.”

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“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.”

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“The key to longevity is to keep doing what you do better than anyone else. We work real hard at that. It's about getting your message out to the consumer. It's about getting their trust, but also getting them excited, again and again. My clothes.. the clothes we make for the runway.. aren't concepts. They go into stores. Our stores. Thankfully, we have lots of them.”

Real Hard Hard Work Keys Messages Clothes Concepts Excited Stores Consumers Again And Again Longevity Runway

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“We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.”

Moving Natural Technology Internet Majors Collections Extensions Runway Polo

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“Black is not as good as Purple.”

Black Fashion Purple

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Born: October 14, 1939
Known for: Fashion designer
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