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    • News: Just Blaze’s New Blog on Ralph Lauren Fashion

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    Just Blaze started a new blog a couple weeks ago dedicated to the Fashion of Ralph Lauren. I’ve always been a fan of the brand for as long as I could remember so it is really cool to see some of the products and vintage lo stuff Just Blaze puts up on his site. The great thing is that Just laze also owns a lot of the stuff he posts up!

    Enjoy!

    Check it out here

    1967 aka OneNineSix Seven.com

    Some info on Mr. Ralph Lauren

    Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Rueben Lifshitz in The Bronx to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Belarus[1]: Fraydl (Kotlar) and Frank Lifshitz, a house painter.[citation needed]

    From a young age he started working after school to earn money to buy suits. The four-year younger Calvin Klein, lived in the same Bronx neighborhood but it is not known if they ever met while living there.

    Lauren attended the Salanter Academy Jewish Day School followed by MTA (now known as the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy), before eventually graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1957.[citation needed] In MTA Lauren was known by his classmates for selling ties to his fellow students. In his Clinton yearbook he stated under his picture that he wanted to be a millionaire.[citation needed] Other notables who attended this school include Burt Lancaster, Robert Klein, and Stan Lee. At age 16, Ralph’s brother Jerry changed their last name from Lifshitz to Lauren (his brother Lenny retained the name Lifshitz for many years). During the summers, Lauren attended Camp Roosevelt (Monticello)[2].

    He went to Baruch College (of the City University of New York) where he studied business, although he dropped out after two years. From 1962 to 1964 he served in the United States Army. After his discharge in 1968, he married Ricky Low-Beer. He did not attend fashion school, but worked for Brooks Brothers as a salesman. In 1967, with the financial backing of Norman Hilton, Lauren opened a necktie store where he also sold ties of his own design, under the label “Polo”. He later purchased the name from Hilton. Lauren has since grown his fashion empire into a billion-dollar business.

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