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October 21, 2022
I recently wrote a blog on the wonderfully luxurious show from Ralph Lauren. Lauren has been one of those American designers that is "all American." His whole mantra and style is American. It's a mix of the East Coast Ivy League preppy look to the totally American Western look - The TV series, Yellowstone Look, before it was fashionable.Â
Only Lauren's looks are more mature, refined and pertinent. They are even more practical, even though they are designed in this day and age to be more luxurious. It might be that simply being pretty and flattering of the 70s and 80s means luxurious in the 20s!
From his western look:
  
This sort of western look, seems a little tricky and I used to avoid it like the plague even when I was in Sante Fe. One time I wore some beautiful French Rags long cardigan with an elegant concho belt into a restaurant in London, and I got looks that you would have thought I owned Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and Glacier National Parks, all! It turned heads, so this look is clearly as fashionable as it has always been, and the TV series Yellowstone only makes it more
so.
But that's not the end of Lauren's looks.
  
Nobody has ever done Preppy like Lauren. Knowing Lauren's background, he wasn't even close to it, but it doesn't matter, because he has the look down solid. Then turn around and add a little classic glamour:
  
and this is the sort of clothing that we've been missing lately.
In a recent issue of BOF (Business of Fashion) there's talk about the House of Lauren taking on a new business savoir-faire (knowledge) of making everything luxurious. And I really believe luxurious is the right word here. These styles are pretty, very flattering, and can be made to be flattering for any number of different shapes, sizes and styles. But they are also timeless. The art of Lauren has always been timeless, and not sure how the fashion house got off
that mark, but dang, they hit it out of the ball park with the Fall 22 and Spring 23 collections.Â
On the blog is a link to a video for the Fall show, and if you would like to see more of the Spring show, click here.Â
I have always lamented the passing of the 80s into the ugliness of the 90s on to this decade because, there is so much beauty and so many flattering styles that can be made, but weren't simply because it wasn't fashionable. Never, has there been a fashion craze where designers were so intent on making the customer look ugly - on purpose.Â
The two Lauren shows are not only a return to classic, timeless styles, but also I find it just a little humorous that classic and timeless are now referred to as luxurious in today's fashion climate. In a way they certainly are.Â
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