Polo Ralph Lauren: The Iron Horse | Browns Fashion

Who better to bring Polo Ralph Lauren’s storied history to life than cutting-edge cultural icon THE FACE? In celebration of our exclusive capsule collection, we commissioned the style bible to deliver a vision of the collection, as seen through their signature creative lens. Introducing “The Iron Horse". Representing the effervescent creative energy of Britain’s youth, both artists’ future-facing, distinctive sounds are heavily influenced by their respective upbringings in Camden and Shepherd’s Bush. Riley’s music, which fuses elements of dub, jungle, jazz and R&B, is an exercise in originality packed full of West London energy. Meanwhile, Lacoste’s whip-smart, tongue-in-cheek lyricism celebrates the glorious mundanity of everyday life – suddenly, the daily commute no longer feels like a routine slog, instead it becomes a whirring vessel for creative collision. In the early 1990s, New York’s Subway also played an important role in bringing the spirit of Ralph Lauren to the streets. It offered so much more than transportation from A to B, bringing together the city’s youth and allowing subculture to expand and thrive as it bubbled underneath the city. Around the same time, graffiti, an artistic medium inherent to global transportation systems, subverted Ralph Lauren clothing into a new countercultural uniform. It created trends that would drip down into teenagers’ bedrooms around the world – particularly in London – as writers took inspiration from their NYC counterparts