For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
Ralph LaurenRead
My philosophy has always been that I can sell chinos and T-shirts and $5,000 gowns - they just have to be the best of what they are.
Interpretation
Strive for excellence in whatever you create, regardless of its price or type.
Ralph Lauren emphasizes the importance of quality and excellence in every product, whether it's a casual item like chinos and T-shirts or a luxurious gown. His philosophy showcases a commitment to delivering the best, transcending the boundaries of different price points and categories in fashion.
In practice
In a business seminar discussing the importance of product quality.
For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.
We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.
We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.
I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.
The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.
Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.
I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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