Founded by American designer Ralph Lauren in the late 1960s, the company boomed in the 1980s as Lauren\'s designs came to be associated with a sophisticated and distinctly American attitude. The company\'s first products were wide ties, but it soon designed and manufactured an entire line of menswear before entering the more lucrative women\'s fashion market as a designer and licenser. By the 1980s, the Polo/Ralph Lauren name helped sell a wide array of products, including fragrances and accessories for men and women, clothing for young boys and infants, and a variety of housewares, shoes, furs, jewelry, leather goods, hats, and eyewear.
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