Maison 16 of 100 · Fashion & Couture
Ralph Lauren
The reading
Not a European maison and not trying to be one. Ralph Lauren sells a complete American room: the horse, the lawn, the tuxedo, the jean. Purple Label and Ralph Lauren Collection are the true luxury floors; Polo is the on-ramp that funds them.
The house
- Origin
- United States
- Founded
- 1967
- Atelier
- Fashion & Couture
- Ownership
- Ralph Lauren Corp.
- Signature
- Polo pony / Purple Label
- Register note
- American lifestyle luxury This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
The register, counted around it
Counted inside its own room it stands 16th of the twenty-five houses this register files under Fashion & Couture. This is one of the nine maisons the register files to the United States — the same number it files to the United Kingdom, and the fourth-largest national group in it. Ralph Lauren Corp. owns one house in this register, and this is it. By founding year it is the 75th-oldest of the hundred. The register's oldest house is Rémy Martin (1724) and its youngest Genesis (2015); this one was founded 1967.