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. Ralph Lauren More Quotes by Ralph Lauren More Quotes From Ralph Lauren I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars. Ralph Lauren falling-in-love girl thinking I am not looking like Armani today and somebody else tomorrow. I look like Ralph Lauren. And my goal is to constantly move in fashion and move in style without giving up what I am. Ralph Lauren giving-up fashion moving 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. Ralph Lauren alternatives looks thinking 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. Ralph Lauren mixing quality unique 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. Ralph Lauren done want thinking I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen. Ralph Lauren terrible good-things happens 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. Ralph Lauren fashion dream country I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream. Ralph Lauren dream world 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. Ralph Lauren artist jobs father Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams. Ralph Lauren clothes inspiration dream I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear. Ralph Lauren focus done philosophy 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." Ralph Lauren trying believe people I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim. Ralph Lauren fashion victim looks 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. Ralph Lauren care inspiration people 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. Ralph Lauren magazines get-better looks 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. Ralph Lauren lucky world thinking 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. Ralph Lauren opportunity america thinking 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. Ralph Lauren clothes fashion thinking 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. Ralph Lauren stomach come-up down-and 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. Ralph Lauren jeans design men
