![]() ![]() It should be the designer, and it should be the name.” So, that’s how I started it. I started with ties and then I went to womenswear, and when I went to womenswear, I said, “I’m not going to call it ‘Polo’ because that’s very mens-y. But for a long time, you’d resisted the idea of Polo as a women’s label. But it occurred to me as I walked away from that memento-filled sanctum, maybe the secret is to be a world-class listener.ĭirk Standen: One of the things that got you thinking about doing Polo for women was hearing your daughter, Dylan, say she wanted to wear her husband’s plaid Polo shirts. To build an empire as vast, consistent, and enduringly vital as Ralph Lauren’s, you have to know a thing or two about communicating your ideas. I’d been bracing for a monologue, but he insisted on a dialogue. I’d been prepared to hear him recite his hits, but he was just as ready to get into the misses. I’d been expecting guarded, but he spoke candidly for more than an hour, without even the ghost of a PR handler in the room. The topic at hand was his newest baby, Polo Ralph Lauren for Women-it launches tonight, Monday, September 8, with a high-tech spectacular in Central Park-but no subject was off-limits. ![]() ![]() But the moment Ralph Lauren began to speak, his voice a soft hepcat whisper, any preconceptions went out the window. And the man sitting across from me was more or less familiar from his photographs: the carefully barbered white hair the tan, gentler now than in its full Cary Grant glory the art-directed getup of white jeans, sneakers, and khaki jacket, with a jangle of turquoise and silver pendants peeking out from the neck of his matching khaki shirt. ( You People’s cast, which also features Eddie Murphy and Nia Long as Amira’s parents, is seriously stacked.) Throughout the movie, the film uses streetwear to telegraph that Ezra, who dreams of becoming a star hosting a podcast that dissects what he repeatedly (and somewhat distressingly) refers to as “The Culture,” is just a little different.The office was pretty much the way I’d pictured it would be: wood paneling, black-and-white photos, sleek leather-and-chrome club chairs arranged around a book-laden coffee table the size of a boat. In the synagogue, Ezra remembers to bring wipes for his sneakers-but leaves his yarmulke in the car, much to the dismay of his mom, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The nods to fashion don’t appear just as costumes for fan accounts to lap up and break down , but as major plot points throughout You People. There are plenty of movies that feature great, moodboard-worthy fashion, and even a few that helped create fashion grails, but few bear-hug contemporary streetwear like You People. You People stands strikingly alone in this respect. The first scene tells you where the film’s priorities lie: while on its face You People is a movie about the interracial relationship between Ezra and Lauren London’s Amira, it is also an ode and love letter to sneaker and streetwear culture. These belong to Ezra, Hill’s character-who promptly, mid-service, bends over to lovingly wipe a smudge off his precious sneakers. The very first scene of You People, Kenya Barris’s new Jonah Hill-starring Netflix movie, an ankle-height camera pans across a series of boring dress shoes in a synagogue before landing on a striking pair of Nike x Supreme Dunks.
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