Ralph Lauren – The Wasp Dreamscape

No. 21 – THE WASP DREAMSCAPE
The Man Who Sold America to Itself

While European couturiers debated hemlines, Ralph Lauren was building a world. In 1972 he created the Polo shirt with its little embroidered horseman, and by the late 1970s he had constructed an entire fantasy of American aristocracy: tweed jackets, cashmere turtlenecks, Adirondack cabins, Western sunsets, and the impossible promise that anyone could live like old money if they just dressed the part. His 1978 "Safari" collection turned Upper East Side women into Hemingway heroines. His stores looked like English country houses. His advertisements looked like F. Scott Fitzgerald novels. This Postmodern homage captures his myth-making machine at full power: an equestrian landscape at golden hour, a woman in tweed and pearls beside a man in a shearling coat, the Polo player logo rendered like a coat of arms, and the warm amber light of an America that exists only in the imagination—and in Ralph Lauren's boutiques. The year reads 1978—when a designer became a novelist, and a shirt became a fantasy.

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