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The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

Ralph Lauren

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Ralph Lauren
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 14
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
The Bronx
New York City
Ralph Lipshitz
Live
Everything
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Life
People
Clothes
Design
Dream

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