Polo Ralph Lauren
Polo Ralph Lauren was founded by a 29-year old Ralph Lifshitz working out of a single-drawer “showroom”
in the Empire States Building. In the years that followed, his mesh cotton polo shirts, embroidered with a
Pony logo chest emblem, would become one of his brand’s signature pieces, while his label’s elegant blend
of Ivy, prep and country club styles would come to represent the quintessential all-American man. As the
label’s Polo Sport and Snow Beach sub-lines gained popularity in the hip-hop world thanks to the likes of
Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan, Ralph Lauren became ingrained in our collective consciousness as a universal
symbol of American wealth and good-living, whatever form that living might take.
