I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.