- Title: "American icon" designer Ralph Lauren gets documentary treatment.
- Date: 24th October 2019
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 23, 2019) (REUTERS) FASHION DESIGNER, RALPH LAUREN, POSING ON THE RED CARPET FOR THE DOCUMENTARY FILM 'VERY RALPH', ALONG WITH HIS WIFE RICKY LAUREN (RIGHT OF RALPH) THEIR THREE CHILDREN ANDREW LAUREN (SECOND FROM LEFT) SON DAVID LAUREN (THIRD FROM LEFT) AND DAUGHTER DYLAN LAUREN (SECOND FROM RIGHT) PHOTOGRAPHERS RALPH AND RICKY LAUREN POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS DYLAN LAUREN POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) DYLAN LAUREN, DAUGHTER OF RALPH LAUREN, SAYING: "I got a sneak peak at it, and I'm thrilled that they were able to capture my dad's life in an hour and a half or so, but it's an extraordinary life and I'm happy people are seeing what I've experienced." RALPH AND RICKY LAUREN POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) DYLAN LAUREN, DAUGHTER OF RALPH LAUREN, SAYING: "I would say he's awesome and he is my dad, so when I think about it, I know he's a famous top designer but to me he's my dad and I love him." VARIOUS OF RALPH AND RICKY LAUREN POSING WITH SINGER BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN PHOTOGRAPHERS RALPH AND RICKY LAUREN POSING WITH 'VERY RALPH' FILM DIRECTOR SUSAN LACY (SOUNDBITE) (English) 'VERY RALPH' DIRECTOR, SUSAN LACY, SAYING: "He came from nothing and he turned his dreams into reality. That's a pretty amazing story." WHITE FLASH (SOUNDBITE) (English) 'VERY RALPH' DIRECTOR, SUSAN LACY, SAYING: "We both cried. I mean it's hard to look at your life and see it flash before you, see your children when they were small. It's emotional." RALPH AND RICKY LAUREN POSING WITH ACTOR MICHAEL J. FOX AND HIS WIFE TRACY POLLAN DAVID LAUREN POSING WITH HIS WIFE LAUREN BUSH VARIOUS OF BUSH AND DAVID LAUREN POSING WITH POLLAN AND FOX MODEL TYSON BECKFORD AND MODEL HILARY RHODA POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) MODEL, HILARY RHODA, SAYING: "Backstage, or right after the fashion show, everyone is so like family in his company, so at the finale when he takes his bow and comes back people are crying backstage and it's very emotional and you just feel that family kind of connection. It's really great." MODEL KARLIE KLOSS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) MODEL, KARLIE KLOSS, SAYING: "So excited to be here. Ralph is an incredible icon and it's been such a privilege to work with him throughout my entire career. So tonight is all about celebrating his beautiful legacy." WHITE FLASH (SOUNDBITE) (English) MODEL, KARLIE KLOSS, SAYING: "Oh, so many incredible memories with Ralph. I will never forget the first time I walked in his show, and you just feel like the most beautiful person on the planet and he has that impact and that effect on every woman that he dresses." BECKFORD POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) MODEL, TYSON BECKFORD, SAYING: "His clothes speak for everything. Like he has an outfit for every activity that you're going to do. Like you could have been driving around in the mud, earlier in the day, hiking, whatever and then have to get dressed to go to a red carpet like this and be able to pull a tuxedo out of the back of your Land Rover. He just understood everything and he knew what he was doing. He was inspired by all things around him." MODEL, VLADA ROSLYAKOVA, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS FASHION DESIGNER, VERA WANG BEING INTERVIEWED 27 (SOUNDBITE) (English) FASHION DESIGNER, VERA WANG, SAYING: "And I have to say, he's a great, more than a designer he's a great American hero. He really brought the American experience to the whole world, and I doubt that that would even be possible today to reproduce." VARIOUS OF MODEL, GEORGIA FOWLER, POSING VARIOUS OF NFL WIDE RECEIVER, DALE MOSS, POSING MODEL, BRITTNI TUCKER, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS LIFESTYLE GURU, MARTHA STEWART, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS PHOTOGRAPHERS STEWART POSING VARIOUS OF MODEL RUBY ALDRIDGE, POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Embargoed: 7th November 2019 16:40
- Keywords: Ralph Lauren fashion red carpet
- Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED FILM LOCATIONS
- City: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNIDENTIFIED FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
- Topics: Celebrities,Arts / Culture / Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA001B2GJN7X
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: American designer Ralph Lauren considers himself a private person, so giving cameras access to his life and fashion empire for the upcoming HBO documentary 'Very Ralph' was occasionally challenging.
Director Susan Lacy said she and Lauren "both cried" when they first viewed the finished documentary together.
Explaining the emotional effect the film had on Lauren, Lacy said, "I mean it's hard to look at your life and see it flash before you, see your children when they were small. It's emotional."
The documentary, which chronicles Lauren's life from his childhood days in the Bronx to opening stand-alone stores worldwide, made its debut at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday (October 23), attended by a who's who in the worlds of fashion and entertainment.
Lauren's family came out to support Ralph, including wife Ricky Lauren, sons David and Andrew Lauren and daughter Dylan.
"I'm thrilled that they were able to capture my dad's life in an hour and a half or so," said Dylan Lauren.
"It's an extraordinary life and I'm happy people are seeing what I've experienced," she added.
Also on hand to pay tribute to Lauren, who serves as executive chairman and chief creative of Ralph Lauren, were Bruce Springsteen, Martha Stewart, models Lily Aldridge and Karlie Kloss, Michael J. Fox, and fellow designer Vera Wang.
"He's a great American hero," Wang told Reuters in a red carpet interview. "He really brought the American experience to the whole world and I doubt that would be possible today to reproduce."
Lauren, 80, said former HBO Chief Executive Richard Plebler presented the idea of a documentary at dinner one evening, saying he was a big fan of the designer. He began to consider the proposition because at the time, Ralph Lauren Corp was approaching a big milestone, it's 50th anniversary.
Produced and directed Lacy, the documentary features archival footage from the fashion brand as well as interviews with Lauren's family and the likes of Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld and Naomi Campbell. It also includes home videos that show a playful Lauren, dancing and playing basketball with his kids.
"Ralph is an incredible icon and it's been such a privilege to work with him throughout my entire career. So tonight is all about celebrating his beautiful legacy," said Karlie Kloss, one of the many models who turned out for the premier on Wednesday.
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