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

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Ralph Lauren
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 14
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
The Bronx
New York City
Ralph Lipshitz
Quality
Timelessness
Lifestyle
Integrity
Function
Fashion
Style

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I have always been drawn to the beauty of things designed to function. Mixing technical pieces with more traditional prints and patterns creates not only a quality experience, but a look that is unique, and for me, very exciting.
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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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Love the fun of clothes, not the status of fashion.
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What I do is about living. It's about living the best life you can and enjoying the fullness of the life around you- from what you wear, to the way you live, to the way you love.
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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.
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My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.
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I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.
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..It's not about age...I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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Black is not as good as Purple.
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For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
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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.
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We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.
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Personal style is about a sense of yourself, a sense of what you believe in and wearing what you like.
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I was very influenced by movies I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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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.
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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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My wife Ricky is my muse. Her personal style and natural beauty have always been my inspiration.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
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