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Famous Americans with Belarusian roots: Ralph Lauren

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Photo: depositphotos

Ralph Lauren (real name Ralph Lifshitz) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist and businessman, famous for creating the Ralph Lauren Corporation and turning a tie store into a global market giant.

His story told the project "Museum of Russian-American Heritage".

Ralph Lauren was born in the Bronx, New York, into the family of Freidl and Frank Lifshitz, poor Jewish immigrants who came to the United States from Pinsk (now Belarus).

Later, commenting on the accusations that he allegedly changed his last name in order to hide his Jewish roots, he explained: “You see, I have the word“ shit ”in my name ... Can you imagine what it was like at school ?!”

Lauren attended the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, where he, striving for a better life (he always wanted to be a millionaire), sold his classmates ties. He later went to Baruch College to become a businessman, but dropped out 2 of the year, to enroll in the US Army, and then get a job as a salesman at Brooks Brothers store and, eventually, open his own business, selling home-made ties in the cheapest room, which he managed to rent in the Empire State Building.

Photo: depositphotos

Photo: depositphotos

On December 20, 1964, Lauren married Ricky Ann Lev-Bir. In order to receive a blessing from his parents, he had to hide from them the fact that his bride was only half Jewish, only on her father's side. They had 3 children: Andrew, a future producer and director, David, a future high-ranking employee of the Ralph Lauren Polo company, and Dylan, the owner of a large candy store - Dylan's Candy Bar.

Great success came to his shop with Niemann Marcus, who bought 1 200 ties he liked. A few months later, in 1967, he, having enlisted the financial support of Norman Hilton, opened a men's tie shop and began selling his models under the now legendary Polo brand.

In the 70s, he tried his hand at big men's fashion and created several extremely popular clothing lines under the Polo brand. In addition, during this time he created some of the first lines of women's business clothing, which, ironically, was based on men's business suits. For his work he was awarded the prestigious COTY Award. Moreover, he was commissioned to create costumes for the films “The Great Gatsby” and “Annie Hall” (1977).

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Photo: depositphotos

In 1987, Loren was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor, he had surgery and fully regained his health.

After 3 decades, Lauren already had more than 35 boutiques throughout America, and the turnover of his trading empire amounted to billions of dollars. Once he became rich, he used his wealth to fulfill all his childhood dreams. For example, today he is the owner of a collection of more than 70 extremely rare and monstrously expensive cars, including three McLaren F1s (including an ultra-rare LM modification), a 1962 Ferrari GTO, a Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic, and the Black Prince "(the one and only 1930 Mercedes-Benz CountTrossi SSK). These magnificent examples of automotive design have even been in a museum - they were exhibited at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

Lauren never forgot about those who needed help: he founded the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research at Georgetown University, the Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation, and the Pink Pony Fund, a global project to fight cancer.

For his contributions to fashion and philanthropy, Lauren was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2010, and was awarded the James Smithson Bicentennial Medal in 2014.

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