RALPH LAUREN

Polo Ralph Lauren was founded by a 29-year old Ralph Lifshitz working out of a single-drawer “showroom” in the Empire States Building  in 1967. Best known through its mesh cotton polo shirts, embroidered with a Pony logo chest emblem.

As the label's Polo Sport and Snow Beach sub-lines gained popularity in the hip-hop world, thanks to Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan, Ralph Lauren became anchored in our collective consciousness as a universal symbol of wealth and of American well-being.