Close your eyes. Picture someone who wears Polo Ralph Lauren. Other than Ralph himself, who springs to mind? A dad—or grandfather—from your country club? A ball boy or girl at the U.S. Open? Maybe it’s Diane Keaton as Annie Hall or Will Smith as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air or Princess Diana. Maybe it’s you in college, if you enrolled between the late ’80s and the early aughts. Fresh in the pop culture record is Taylor Swift on the cover of Time and Jacob Elordi in Saltburn, in which he wears a cornflower-blue Polo V-neck over a white T-shirt when Oliver first lays his lovesick eyes on him across the Oxford quad.
None of these answers are wrong. In fact, all of them are spot-on for one of the many archetypes—preppy, hip-hop, athlete, aristocrat—that Lauren has conjured in the 56 years since he launched Polo. More recently someone not usually associated with the Canon of Ralph has popped up wearing those signature ponies all over town: the creative cool kid. Usually found downtown, whether that means Ridgewood, Queens, or Silver Lake in L.A., these characters wear Polo in a kind of post-ironic way, finding the once ubiquitous rugby shirts, windbreakers, and American flag and Polo Bear sweaters on vintage or resale sites and folding them into their everyday wardrobes.
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Jersey, JE ΤΙΜΕ
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THE HUNGER GAMES
Two former bons amis grew up in the same expensive suburb and cut their teeth together in the Paris nightclub scene. Then they launched competing restaurant empires, and the gloves came off. Now one of them is facing a suspended prison sentence and a huge fine. Welcome to the city's most delicious grudge match.
HIDDEN in Plain Sight
T&C was invited into the private archives and secret workshops of Paris, to glimpse the treasures that have made this city famous for its style and craftsmanship. It's a reputation worth fighting for.
GUARDIAN of Objects
Laura Kugel is the go-to art dealer for the world's most discerning clients, but her family's Paris wonderland is open to all. Come inside, won't you?
Ecole! Elysée! SCANDALE!
The path to the French White House requires a political education at one of the country's elite universities. As controversy swirls around Sciences Po-class treason, #MeToo à la française, creeping le wokisme-will its grip on power finally slip?
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Surely not, in the world's most visited city! And yet: Why is the Louvre called the Louvre? Why do the upper stories of its 17th-century buildings tilt in? Why do even familiar streets feel so enticing, unknown? One thing is clear: So many of us return because the City of Light is really one of mesmerizing shadows.
High SEAS
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The Cruise Cure
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