Saturday in the Park With Ralph

Photo: AP Photo/Jason DeCrow

I feel complete. You know those nights where you feel like you’re having a wonderful dream?—RALPH LAUREN

Photo: Courtesy of Ralph Lauren
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris

If you called central casting and said, “Find me a great New Yorker,” they would send Ralph Lauren.—MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, IN A TOAST TO LAUREN.

Lauren in his office, 1978.Photo: Edgar de Evia/Courtesy of Ralph Lauren
Photo: Courtesy of Ralph Lauren

The first time I met Ralph, for an interview, I walked in and my knees started knocking. All of a sudden I’m thinking, These shoes—why did I wear these shoes? How could I inflict this outfit on him?—DIANE SAWYER

Three evening looks from Lauren's spring runway.Photo: Firstview
David, Dylan, Ralph, Ricky, and Andrew Lauren.Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris

My dress is actually Ralph and Dylan Lauren. I changed my father’s design. I asked for ruffles on the shoulders. Then later I went into the studio and everything had ruffles, so I must have been on to something.—DYLAN LAUREN

Photo: Courtesy of Ralph Lauren

Ralph lives next door to me in Bedford, and every time he stays there, I hear a car zoom, zoom, zoom down the road. And it’s always a different car. That’s Ralph. —MARTHA STEWART

Saturday in the Park With Ralph