A man's beginning is not his name. For Ralph Lauren, it was not about the name he would one day make famous. It was about the things he could make with his own hands. Before the stores, before the polo player on the shirt, he sold neckties. This was his first real business. The public knows he sold ties. What they do not know is that some of his first ones were cut from rags. He took scraps and made them into something new, something he wanted to wear.
His office was a single drawer in a showroom in the Empire State Building. He had no staff. He was the designer, the salesman, the delivery boy -- While other men wore thin, quiet ties, he made his wide and bold. He drove from store to store, carrying his handmade wares, selling his vision one tie at a time. The empire was not born in a boardroom. It was born from rags, in a drawer.
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