Ralph Lauren

I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

I think I've been happy because I've been able to do what I believe in, and on my own terms.

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

My thing was always about individuality and about creating a world - because you don't just wear clothes, you live a life. You have style. You project who you are.

I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

I loved Cary Grant. I got to know him and Audrey Hepburn. Here were these people I always liked and admired, and they were coming to my house.

Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

On one level, there's an aspirational quality to having a Polo player. On another level, it's just a great shirt with lots of colors.

My symbol was always a polo player because I liked sports, and polo has a stylishness to it.

As a kid, I wore a lot of my older brothers' hand-me-downs.

I'm a big fan of Woody Allen. I used to love the fact that he wrote his own screenplay and acted in the movie.

My philosophy was that I never had focus groups.

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

My philosophy has always been that I can sell chinos and T-shirts and $5,000 gowns - they just have to be the best of what they are.

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

I never said to myself, 'I'm going to be the greatest.' I just wanted to do my own thing.

You have to create something from nothing.