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.

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.

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

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.

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

I have a vision for living. It's about elements of style. It's about all the things that I love, that I believe in.

I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.