Ralph Lauren Quotes

When I create a collection, I approach it with a cinematic point of view-I am not designing clothes, I'm creating a world.

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.

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

..It's not about age...I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

Love the fun of clothes, not the status of fashion.

For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.

I try to design into a world that is constantly moving, and moving me.

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

Cars are like children: It's hard to say that any one is more special than the other. There are little things about each car that you come to love, whether it's the look, the steering wheel, the way it drives, or even the way it drives differently when you put the top up. They all have identities; they have spirits and characteristics that are truly endearing in some way.

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

Enjoy your family. Do things that you like to do. Stay strong. That's the secret to remaining happy.

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

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.

I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do and that are not into the showbiz.

I like romance, I like glamour and I like realism. I think that's a great combination.

I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

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.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

It’s easier to follow fashion than it is to have personal style.

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.

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing.

For me accessories create and define a woman's personal style. The bag she carries, the watch on her wrist, her jewelry, her sunglasses, her shoes all define a look that is her signature. For Spring 2014, my accessory collections are about a clean, graphic boldness creating a new dimension redefining modern classics.

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.

I believe one can live many lives through personal style. Every day is an occasion to reinvent yourself

Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives.

There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather, an appreciation of that which has come before. There is a depth and quality of experience that is lived and felt, a recognition of what is truly meaningful. These are the feelings I would like my work to inspire. This is the quality of life that I believe in.

I've always admired a woman who can dress for all occasions-someo ne who's not fashion crazy,but you always want to look like her.

We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

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.

When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"

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 exercise at the gym with a trainer. I feel it's very healthy, very important - important for everybody. I feel it's good for you. It makes you feel better. It loosens you up a little bit.

And I'm excited when I find somebody stimulating to talk with. That's one of the great treasures in life.

I never had a preconceived plan. When you go to a movie and watch someone in the role of his or her life, or when the chairman of the board comes into the room wearing a cool look, it remains in your mind. I love Cary Grant because I like the roles he played. I said, "I want to be that guy." I want to be funny, suave, and a good athlete. I don't have to do a focus group to know what people want. I feel it.

I can drive a certain car one day with great pleasure, and the next day I'll be disappointed that the experience isn't as good as the day before. These cars have moods that change with the weather, or with the driver's own moods.

Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself.

The key to longevity is to keep doing what you do better than anyone else. We work real hard at that. It's about getting your message out to the consumer. It's about getting their trust, but also getting them excited, again and again. My clothes.. the clothes we make for the runway.. aren't concepts. They go into stores. Our stores. Thankfully, we have lots of them.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

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.

I don't like the word ['classic']. It makes you think we didn't do any work.

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.

My dreams are my work. I design out of the things that I love.

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.