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Ricky Ann Lauren (née Loew-Beer; born June 15, 1943), is an American author, artist, photographer, and psychotherapist, and the wife of fashion designer
Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren ( ; ; born October 14, 1939) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and billionaire businessman, best known for founding the brand Ralph Lauren (brand), Ralph Lauren, a global multibillion-dollar enterprise. He stepped do ...
.


Early life

Born Ricky Ann Loew-Beer, she grew up in New York City. She is the daughter of Austrian immigrants, Margaret Vytouch and Rudolph Loew-Beer. Lauren was an English major at
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. She met her future husband Ralph Lauren at the eye doctor's office where she was working part time. Lauren taught fifth grade and danced for a time in
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. On December 20, 1964, she married Ralph Lauren in New York City. She is the daughter of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother.


Career


Hostess, patron and fundraiser

Lauren has supported her husband's career as a kind of "silent partner", as summarized by ''The New York Times''. These activities included attending fashion industry events or charities with him, hosting parties, and her patronage for charitable events. In 2000, she and her husband established a cancer center which is part of
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in
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. The couple also founded the Ralph and Ricky Lauren Center for the Performing Arts, which is located at the
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, in New York City. Lauren has been identified as the "Polo Persona", the model by which the Polo advertising campaigns are developed. Ralph identifies her as his muse, writing in his memoir: "I didn't like the girl with all the makeup and high heels. I liked the girl in jeans and a white shirt with rolled-up sleeves, wearing her boyfriend's jacket. That's the girl I am attracted to. That's the girl I married—Ricky." Ralph acknowledges that when he began designing women's clothes, his interest was piqued by his wife's frustration in finding clothes she would like that could fit her slim and petite build.


Psychotherapist

After her children were in school, Lauren returned to college, earned her degree, and then worked as a psychotherapist.


Author

Lauren is an author, artist and photographer best known for her lifestyle and cookbooks. One of her books is ''Cuisine, Lifestyle, and Legend of the Double RL Ranch'', of which ''
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'' says, "Here is a loving — and really beautiful — picture-book tribute (with history and recipes) to the spot near Telluride that spawned an empire built on denim shirts, tooled turquoise-buckle belts, and red-and-black horse blankets." It reflects her interest in a casual life style and simple Western-style cuisine. She wrote '' The Hamptons: Food, Family and History'', which was well received by ''
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''. Lauren wrote and illustrated "Safari" with her photographs from a 1983 trip to Africa. The proceeds of the leather-and canvas-bound book go to the
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. She also wrote the book ''My Island'' in 1994.


Personal life

Ricky and Ralph Lauren have three children, Andrew,
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" /> The Laurens lived in
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, in a converted barn during the beginning of their marriage. They spent summers in
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. They had two houses in
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, from which Ralph commuted into
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, and then a house in East Hampton. She currently resides in New York City; Montauk, New York; Jamaica; and on the family owned Double RL Ranch beneath the
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outside
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, that they bought in 1982. Lauren studied photography after she was married.


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