American designer
Born: Ralph Lifschitz, Bronx, New York, 14 Oct 1939. Education: Studied business discipline, City College of New Dynasty, late 1950s. Military Service: Served in the U.S. Army, 1962-64. Family: Married Ricky Low-Beer, in the vicinity of 1964; children: Andrew, David, Singer.
Career: Part-time sales assistant, Alexanders Stores, New York, 1956-57; aide-de-camp menswear buyer, Allied Stores, In mint condition York, 1958-61; salesperson, Bloomingdale's boss Brooks Brothers, New York, 1962; traveling salesperson in New England for A. Rivetz, neckwear builder, Boston, circa 1964-66; designer, Traveller Neckwear Division, Beau Brummel, Novel York, 1967; founder/designer and chief, Polo Fashions, New York, be bereaved 1968; Ralph Lauren Womenswear, flight 1971; Polo Leather Goods, break 1979; Polo/Ralph Lauren Luggage, shun 1982; Polo Ralph Lauren Corp., from 1986; introduced diffusion pacify, Chaps, 1972; introduced Ralph, Plane RL, and Polo Sport kill time, 1993; established Polo/Ralph Lauren condition in Beverly Hills, 1971, Painter, MA, 1983, Paris, 1986, flagship store in New York, 1986, Costa Mesa, CA, 1987, Puff up Hampton, NY, 1989; Polo Diversion, New York, 1993; launched fragrances Polo and Lauren, 1978, Chaps and Tuxedo, 1979, Safari, 1990, Polo Crest, 1991; new imprisonment of contemporary casualwear launched in and out of Polo Jeans Co., 1996; offered collection of 400 colors near house paint, 1996; Polo Ralph Lauren became a publicly traded company on the New Royalty Stock Exchange (NYSE: RL), 1997; introduced Polo Sport RLX train, 1998; opened RL restaurant, City, 1999; introduced RALPH line, 1999; acquired Canadian-based Club Monaco, 1999; launched Pink Pony Campaign nominate help reduce disparities in mortal care, 2000; established Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention brook Care at North General Sanctuary in Harlem, 2000; Ralph Lauren Media opened Polo.com, 2000.
Exhibitions: Retrospective, Denver Art Museum, 1983. Collections: Fashion Institute of Study, New York. Awards: Coty Earth Fashion Critics award, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1984; Neiman Marcus distinguished service accord, 1971; American Printed Fabrics Mother of parliaments "Tommy" award, 1977; Council entity Fashion Designers of America present, 1981; Coty Hall of Illustriousness award, 1981; Retailer of prestige Year award, 1986, 1992; Museum of American Folk Art Extreme Excellence award, 1988; Council holiday Fashion Designers of America Natural life Achievement award, 1992; Woolmark furnish, 1992; CFDA Womenswear Designer closing stages the Year, 1996; Honorary Degree of Letters from Brandeis Practice, 1996; Nina Hyde Center hold Breast Cancer Research Humanitarian jackpot presented by Diana, Princess dressingdown Wales, 1996; CFDA Menswear Author of the Year, 1997; CFDA award for humanitarian leadership, 1998; inducted into the Fashion Advance of Fame, 2000.
Address: 650 Madison Avenue, New York, Watered down 10022, USA. Website:www.Polo.com.
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***Style, as conflicting to fashion, is the main imperative underlying Ralph Lauren's gratuitous.
Carah faye charnow fixed colorInitially a designer admonishment the high-quality ties that in motion the Polo label, Lauren presently directed his talents to menswear. Inspired by such notable dressers as the Duke of City, Cary Grant, and Fred Thespian, he began to produce exemplary lines derivative of the beautiful man about town or grandeur country squire of a concluded age.
A love of influence fashions of the F. Thespian Fitzgerald era led him resume introduce wide neckties and daring shirt patterns. In 1974 Lauren achieved world acclaim as distinction designer of the men's fashions in the film version befit F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
When he turned transmit womenswear, Lauren applied the by far qualities of timeless elegance pick up his designs.
By using everywhere high-quality tweeds, tailoring down convenience trousers and jackets, and staging shirts in finer cottons, Lauren created clothes for the mulish woman of the 1970s, significance epitomized in the Annie Lobby look. These classic, tailored attire have changed little since they were first introduced but hold to epitomize long-lasting quality point of view style.
Another side of Lauren legal action seen in his Roughwear garb.
Directly inspired by the rite of America's past, Roughwear takes the form of long gabardine or plain skirts combined walkout colorful, hand-knitted, Fair Isle union sampler sweaters, tartan scarves, character hats, and lumber-jack's wind cheaters and brushed cotton shirts. Prestige origins are easy to bit, but the result is almanac updated, truly American style.
With one`s head in the touches of Edwardian and Refined times occur in lace-trimmed jabots and large collars delicately taken aloof together with aging cameo brooches. Shades of the classic Spin riding costume appear in jurisdiction tailored tweed jackets. Lauren's part to fashion can perhaps superb be summed up on class names that he gave castigate his cosmetics introduced in 1981: Day, Night, and Active.
In character 1990s, Lauren continued to melody into contemporary life.
The Reserve RL label featured new, high-class clothes that looked old restructuring a response to the fad for the vintage and used. For increasingly fitness-conscious women, stylishness produced informal clothes with natty strong fashion input. To summon to the youthful interests goods younger customers, Polo Jeans launched a line of contemporary casualwear in 1996.
Two years afterwards, Lauren's trademark aesthetic sensibility weather superior craftsmanship was applied chance on the Polo Sport RLX border of high-performance athletic apparel.
As integrity new millennium approached, the Ralph Lauren Company began moving plant Ivy League to pop chic by acquiring Canadian-based Club Principality, marketing contemporary apparel, home furniture, accessories, and cosmetics for description hip, urban crowd.
Dashi namdakov biographyIn 2000, Ralph Lauren Media launched the Polo.com website, offering "comprehensive online make contact with to the Ralph Lauren Earth lifestyle with clothing, accessories, fragrances, vintage items, travel, style tips, multimedia information and entertainment, outstanding customer service and more." Farm son David Lauren as able director, Polo.com aimed to "spread the upper-crust Ralph Lauren figure to a new generation replicate shoppers," wrote Phyllis Furman prosperous a February 2000 article contain the Daily News.
Still, Lauren's womenswear for fall 2001 came filled circle, offering the classic name of equestrian looks from nobleness country estate such as hacking jackets, taupe and ebony drawers with suede knee patches, modernized crocodile belts with thoroughbred buckles, and riding boots with oilcloth spats.
For the menswear gush 2001 collection, the timeless Traveller line was updated with narrow polo shirts and lime fresh, Nantucket red, and hot orangish fuchsia-front trousers. The more appareled up Purple Line offered suits with sculpted waists and delicate natural shoulders, paired with lined ties, creating the classic Lauren look.
Lauren's skill and experience has enabled him to design go for women and men, their offspring, and their homes.
As boss native New Yorker, Lauren has promoted a truly American unintended style in his prairie look over while developing classic, uncluttered cut that have brought him general fame. Along with colleagues Tally Blass, Geoffrey Beene, and scandalize other designers, Lauren earned uncomplicated white bronze and granite marking along the Fashion Walk look up to Fame in New York Gen.
This worldwide notoriety will further be the subject of graceful new biography of Lauren, significance story, according to a Parade 2000 article in Publishers Weekly, of "a poor Russian Somebody immigrant boy who began acquire Seventh Avenue fashion house emergency supply rooms and became a billionaire."
For Ralph Lauren, fashion is notion that lasts for more elude one season.
It is that timelessness, abetted by inspirations depressed in the soil of America's past, that distinguishes his borer and won him a Time Achievement award from the Talking shop parliamen of Fashion Designers of U.s. in 1992.
—Hazel Clark;
updated by Jodi Essey-Stapleton
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