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“Absolutely. Because I felt like I. I want to take care. I knew what they were going through and I felt and it was very sensitive time.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I understood what you don't realize is when you get sick, you're in a different world. You're out of the world. All of a sudden you're stepping out of the world you were in. And you're not that same process as an out-of-body experience. And when you live through it, I live through the nightmare of someone opening up my head. And that's a very, very tough thing to live through and wonder if you're going to walk and getting bandages all over there. You are know who your family is. I think I was, as I said before, I think I was very Looking, and it absolutely made me very sensitive every time I would meet somebody that might have had that, and they would tell me that they had, I would choke up a little bit. Took a long time to get past it.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I said, Nina, I said, I'm going to help you. I didn't help her enough, but I did start her Lenina Hyde Foundation. And then gone into Big Bowie and then to”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I saw her after I got out of the hospital and I saw her and she didn't smile back. I said, Nina, Galve. She said, oh, I said, what's the matter? She said, well, I have... Breast cancer, and she said, I met a good doctor and I wanted to get the fashion industry involved and I wanted to ask him and she said they didn't really pay much attention said would you you know”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I appreciate things, but it doesn't last long enough. We tend to forget, and maybe that's how we're made, because forgetting helps you live. Because if you sat there and just thought about the brain tumor and while when you're pain, you go nowhere. So after that was over, fortunately I was lucky. I'm still very handsome. Fortunately, I was lucky and I was able to go through it and rise. And I actually, when anyone, I started this breast cancer clinic for a woman who was in Washington, who was an editor in a fashion business, Nina Hyde.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I said, Oh my God, what happened? How did he get this? And is this going to happen to me? And you realize the world is things are open to you. Anything can happen. And you just got to go and live through it and then some people don't make it and some people do.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a nightmare of your life. I mean, there's very few things that you ever want to be told because I remember walking past a friend of mine on Fifth Avenue when I was told that it was going to have to have an operation and I saw him and he had a tumor of some sorts and his right leg was paralyzed.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very quickly, it just goes right through you. So I had the. I went through it, but it was, I remember having it and saying, what am I going to do? What should I do? What doctor should I see? Yes. Who's going to help me? And it was very frightening. But I met the surgeon. He said we can take care of this. This is nothing, you know, and believe it or not, I went running in the park the next day. And I did get operated on, and fortunately, I think I came back with a vengeance because after it was over, after I was recuperating, I really think I got stronger than I ever was.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My ears were ringing. So, if anyone has ringing ears, forget it, it's cultinitus. It's not the same thing My ears were ringing. I don't know if I yelled at my kids one night. I don't remember. I woke up and my ears were ringing and I was somewhat panicked. I said, this doesn't stop. What is this? So I went to a few doctors and one doctor said, let's take a cat scan. I took a cat scan and had nothing to do with the ringing of the ears. But he said, we see a little small punayum menchioma. They call it. And I said, what? I mean, so if you want that surreal person who said, look at, I've gotten all this. Why did God give me all this? And then this guy is saying to me, you have a brain tumor. I'm in the top of the world and I have a brain tum at the same time.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's a major nightmare. That's a major interruption. This guy goes down who's walking down the runway, who's getting a sanding ovation.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, the difference is, I think we all earn our way, we know who we are, we're working, but we look into all of a sudden I'm looking at that guy and I said, who is he? I'm looking at the, I like them, but I.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Young people that I was with who helped me with the book said, Well, Ralph, how do you feel about the book now? I burst out crying. Sounds terrible, but it's draining because it's like your whole life is in that book.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I like to look at the guy, he's handsome at that time. I see the changes. I think when you see your body of work, when I finish this book, both of these books. But this one particularly.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How did I do this? I finished a show and it's over and people are standing and applauding and they're coming up to me. How did I do”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I'll never know why. It's not. Sometimes it comes with mostly unexpected things. And the ideas have come, I think if there was a gift given to me, honestly”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Talk about what's in sometimes it's something you see. I see someone more, it really comes from anywhere. That painting, I bought that painting at Sotheby's years ago. And I love the way they looked in the park, and I love the way it looked. And all of a sudden I saw a horse. They're riding through Central Park. Whatever it is, I'm reading through it. What I'm seeing there is a beautiful life with a lifestyle that is sort of a little old world, but it has a romance to it. And I guess I am somewhat a romantic. I love movies. I guess I always want to do a movie if I could, but I realize as time went by that, you know, you've got to earn your way. So my inspiration comes from so many different places. It comes from people, it comes from someone walking by.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I hate that. Sometimes squirrel in my seat say, oh my God. If I had to go through one of those runways and have someone ask me, who are you wearing?”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's what I love. I love the ability to, when I did a show last year, I did a show with Caras that I've collected and clothes. And I wanted to show how the cars have a timelessness as well as the clothes. This is not about fashion. It's about forever. And I think there's something about the clothes that becomes identity as to who you are. If you had to show new clothes all the time, it's not the same as being someone who has their own clothes and has her fashion and they make a statement about themselves. At the Academy Wards, sometimes when you see people coming up to talk about master ceremonies, you would say, what are you wearing? Who are you wearing? Who are you?”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, I grew up loving Army, Navy surplus. I love rustic things. I love safari. I like things that are romantic and rugged at the same time. I don't like fashion. I don't like fashion because I don't want things to go in and out. What you're wearing is beautiful, but it's timeless. There's no age. I've always believed in that, and I've been able to take a timeless sensibility. Make it a dream. When I saw you walk in today, you look great.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Every season. I find, and at every season I come back to the same spot where I do the shows and I say, oh my God, another opening, another show. And I go through the, it's sort of inside yourself in a way. Everyone's working and everything's going on and you're inside yourself and said, oh my God, I got to go through this again. Because creating a show, especially in women's, is very complicated, and women's close change so often shapes change and lengths change. And you know, I don't worry about that, except I just wait for the spot where I said, I got it.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the joy that I have found is loving what I do and working. And when I work on a show sometimes, In the beginning, it's a mess because you don't know where you're going, they sort of find your way, and then all of a sudden you hit this stride and you said, I got it. And that excitement is very inner. It's very exciting for yourself to catch that moment where you feel like you've done a job and you've done it really, you hit it. You hit a home run.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It offers you comfort. It offers you the sense that you don't have to worry about certain things, but it doesn't offer you fulfillment of doing something that's coming out of you that's successful”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wanted them to find their own way. I want them all to do what they want to do. And they're very creative and they all have different talents. I find that it's a struggle for them on some levels. You know, I had no choice when I was growing up. I had to get a job. I had to go to work. I remember sitting trying to calling an agency up and saying, I want to get this job. They offered me there was a job offered to me at Staxford Avenue and this employment agency said we think you'll get that job and I said you know I'll take nothing. I'll show you how good I was. I don't need to let me let me I'll show you”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They want to make it on their own. They want to make their own statement, and sometimes that's added to not only am I living my life, I'm living their life to understand And want them to be happy and realize that time does go fleeting and they have to learn to feel good.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you realize that it's not so easy doing all these things. It's not so easy working. It's not so easy to get express yourself and to take care of your family and be an individual and also as some of the kids say, you know, dad was not easy being your son. And I said, What are you talking about? You have everything. You can do anything you want. No dad, it's not the same.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. You're going to have to ask them soon. But I see my children changing. What is interesting is I see how they're handling their children, and you see another dimension of your children instead of yours. I mean, you're seeing them grow and you see them talking to their children, you see the struggle they're having, and you see the anxieties.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm there. I'm there. Physically, but I have that there is in Morning Peace. Honestly, As you do get older and you realize that life is not forever and as things change, you realize that you don't want it to change. You see some wonderful connections. You start to see life a little. Clearer because time has gone by and you're getting older. And so as much as I love what I do and I love dreaming and I love, I feel good about life and I enjoy beauty and I enjoy all the things that the world has to offer. I really love having my family and my wife.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Those are the good stories. You haven't heard the bad stories. If you read some of my reviews, you say, Oh my God, you know, you live through everything and you work and you think. You work hard and you think, well, when I get there, I'm going to really be amazing. And then I realize today is where is there? Where am I getting to?”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why is so much coming my way? And I found that to be overwhelming. And I'm much happier sometimes when the day is just easy and I'm watching TV. Work hard, I love what I do. I'm a competitor. I love work. I like to do the best I can. I like to learn”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I saw them struggle. I saw them worry. I experienced that, but I had sensitivity towards them because they were kind people So getting to love something, or what did I learn over the years, you know, one year goes by after another and you work your way, and if you work hard, you know, you live your life and you have some days when it's hard and you have some days and you're so elated you can't believe. That this is happening to you, and sometimes I would feel, I remember someone was coming over to do a story on me and I was up in Bedford, New York, and I was all dressed up and I felt like, oh my God, I'm really. At me, and I was sort of thinking that to myself. And I said, why do I have all this? Why am I getting all this and other people don't have it?”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think for some reason, believe it or not, it was always very similar as a kid. I was always sensitive. I was always very thoughtful, even when I was 12 years old. I was a regular guy. I played ball in schoolyards. I was a kid. I went roller skating, but I think my parents gave me something special. They gave me a good sense of honesty and integrity.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Trip down the runway, you didn't give yourself. 50 years did not change that. 50 years, I have maybe a little more expertise in areas I didn't have, but basically the love of what I'm doing and the passion for it and the working with other teams and working together is very good for me. And I find that that's one of the good things in life. And I'm not a poet and I'm not going to talk to you about how great I am as a human. I'm a good person. I want to be a good person, but we all make mistakes. Life is... Got lets ups and downs. But I think”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember walking down the runway of my first show and people stood up and applauded and on the way back I said oh my god what am I going to do next I didn't even give myself”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's always I have it every six months. I work on so many things at once and it's always the beginning for me. It's always, oh my God, what am I going to do now? I don't know. What am I going to do? I feel it now”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wanted to work with people and I had a teacher who had tweed jacket and crepe sole shoes and he smoked a pipe at that time. And it was a very interesting role model because there was a sense of when I was talking about teaching, I never thought about money when I was working. I didn't have a lot of money, but it was about doing what I'd love to do. And I also, once I started to have some form of success, I worked with people and I loved that they were part of it. And what you learn when you work for a company is you don't wait for them to say we have to give you a raise. You want to give. And I work my company, people work hard, but at the same time, I want them to feel my success with them.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think that carry-through, and as I've had more success, I was able to somehow feel almost like a teacher. I wanted to be a teacher when I was a young kid.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, companies go up and down, you know, and I've lived through good times and lived through some tough times. I've also lived through a brain tumor. You know, life doesn't go one way. And those days that challenge you tremendously and you live that life and you You're going through it, and you don't stop and think about it, you just go through it. But there is a foundation that I think I have. I've had success. I've enjoyed that success. And I like when I work with people that have success with me. It's no fun having the success alone.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And as I grew up, I work with lots of young people and having the team work together and support me and feel the camaraderie that's so important is where the integrity is because it's not the clothes. It's the spirit behind it for me.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With an honesty, you know, I love what I do. I think I've had a very good life as a child. I never knew where I was going to go. My parents didn't have a lot of money. My father was an I had a loving family and no matter, I didn't have a bike as a kid. And I was able to never think that my parents didn't give it to me, but always sort of loved them because I felt the warmth. And as I grew up,”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I went with the time. It just came. It started. I made the ties, I made the shirts, I made sitters. All of a sudden people coming to buy it and the steward said, what else can you do? And all of a sudden I was a name. And at that time, the names were coming from Europe. It was Hardy Amy's and Pierre Cardan and all European fashion designers in women's, not in men's. I guess I had a head start because when that happened, I had Bloomingdale loving my things and other stores in Dallas, Texas. They all started to go and say we want polo. And I added Ralph Laurent to it when they talked about designer names. And it wasn't a brand they wanted the name. So that's how I added polo and I added Ralph Lauren to the match.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To women's closets. My goal was really to have the opportunity to do what I wanted to do and to make a living for my family. I had no grand thoughts. I had no thoughts except I felt like I can do certain things and I was available to make it happen. I pushed it. I went forward. I was all alone. I had a little drawer in the Empire State building.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was just being unknown with stores where you're feeling that you're coming up with something and someone is liking your things. Wow.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the idea that I didn't have a business, the idea that I was a young guy just starting out, I used to deliver the ties and label the ties and ship them myself And occasionally, my wife would help, and occasionally my father-in-law would help. And so, could you imagine Thanksgiving when unpacking these gifts to send out, I remember sending these ties to a few of the stores in Beverly Hills, and one guy calls me back and says, hey, Steve McQueen, we just bought 17 of your ties. So I've seen excitement. My life that was very, very pure. It wasn't. I bet in the beginning it was just”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I said, I'm closing my bag, and I And six months later, they called back and said, We can't find your tithe anywhere. And they put in a whole case of my tithes in the store. And that was the beginning of...”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I was willing to go down and do it. Maybe that came from the movies. Maybe it came from my parents. Maybe it came from something that I don't know is unconscious. So when I went to Bloomingdale's years later and showed them the ties that I had developed, the store management, the buyers looked at the ties and said, Ralph, I love the ties, but they're too wide. Could you make them narrow? And would you put the Sutton East label, which is our Bloomingdale's private label? And we really would love it. We've got great ties. And I said to him, I said, look on my heart's in my miles. I can't do it. I can't sell you. I'd love to sell you. I'm dying to sell blue and I can't do it.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I was little as a kid. And all of a sudden they all ran away and there was a sense of power, of being able to handle something yourself. And I saw stars. I knew that I had to do what I had to do, but I didn't know what the consequence was going to do.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think there was a story I've said to many people that sort of works for me. I don't know why. When I was about 12 or 14 in the Bronx, we had a fight with the kids across the parkway. And I got on my, we had sleds and we had a snowball fight. And all during this snowball fight, it wasn't a serious one, but it was semi-serious. The kids on the other side that we'd throw in snowballs to said, we want Ralph. We want Ralph, and for some reason I was incensed by their demand to sacrifice me. It all came out. I got on my sled and I went down the hill and I said to the guys, all right, come and get me. And they all ran away. And I don't know why they came out that way. I'm not a guy that was always looking for a fight or anything like that. But it gave me a sense of just watching these kids all of a sudden run away. Now I'm not 6'4".”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like some things. It was rich and it was an international flavor to it. And the women and men that went to polo matches all looked stylish. And there was a Europeanness to it as opposed to Americanness. Even though I do a lot of American, what people call me American designer, You know, it really is not about America, it's about what I love. And I did as I grew and as the ties started to sell and as consumers started to buy my things, I started to develop the idea of doing more things.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Idea for the bigger tie? I had the tie. I saw making ties and I said, look, I think we should do these wider ties. And I asked my boss, he said, the world is not ready for Ralph Loring. And so I knew that I had to, I like the company I was with, but I knew I had to express myself And so I spoke to some other one. I got this job designing ties. And most of the people, when I saw them, they look at me and say, What is polo? Is that Monco Polo? In reality, the world of polo was very glamorous to me. It was very stylish. It was very international. For some reason, maybe through the movies, the exposure to the world of wealth and the world of privilege was desirable as it is to many people.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think that's what comes out of these. What's been wonderful for me is I never had any formal training. I never went to fashion school and I got in there, I got a job selling ties for a Thai company.”
2018-09-12 · Oprah's Super Soul · Ralph Lauren, Part 1: Celebrating 50 Years of Design · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source