RALPH LAUREN | The 50th Anniversary Show

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Polo Ralph Lauren, this company hosted a
fashion show in Central Park, New York and many celebrities participated in
this celebration. There were Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, and many movie
starts. This is the overall career of Mr. Lauren for half a century and there
were men and women, old and young, outfitted in Mr. Lauren’s favorite reference
points: the leathers and Buffalo plaids and hardware of the American West; the
micro-sequined flapper frocks and laces of Gatsby’s Eggs (East and West); the
tweeds of Brideshead and the pinstripes of prohibition; paisleys and collegiate
stripes and collarbone-sweeping earrings. All of it mixed together in a
signature stew.

Later, an entire community of models from babies to grandparents appeared in pieces
from the Polo collection, a pointed (if unspoken) ode to diversity and
inclusion, in clothes as in life.

There were more than 100 looks in all, but it was the haute patchwork gowns collaged
together from scraps of tapestry brocade and velvet, dripping silk fringes at
the seams, that summed it up best: a career as a collage of what once caught
our collective imagination, refined over seasons.