At this time last year, Ralph Lauren joined our nation and the world in a long-overdue reckoning with racism. One year later, our Chairman & Chief Creative Officer Ralph Lauren and President & CEO Patrice Louvet shared an update in an open letter with our teams on our steadfast commitment to becoming a wholly equitable workplace and a champion for diversity and inclusion in the world. “The next chapter for our Company won’t be defined by any single product or brand campaign we create – it will be defined by what we stand for. As a beacon for American culture and values in the world, racial equity must be at the very heart of who we are and how we live our Purpose. With integrity as our compass, we promise to continue to listen, learn and take action into a better tomorrow.” – Ralph Lauren & Patrice Louvet https://lnkd.in/evs83ff
Christian Tookes, one of our Men’s Buyers, journeys back to his trip to Ghana in 2019 as a Ralph Lauren ambassador with GiveMeTap to expand local community access to clean water. Since 2018, we have been working with GiveMeTap to make clean water accessible in Ghana. Together, we have installed water pumps that provide drinking water to more than 18,000 people across the country. “Ralph Lauren is really a community of caring,” says Christian. “It’s caring about the people that you work with and it’s caring about the community that you’re creating.” Learn more: https://careers.ralphlauren.com/careersCorporate #LifeAtRL #RLGivesBack
As we celebrate Earth Day, we continue our journey towards a more sustainable and equitable future for all. We are committed to restoring and protecting the planet’s natural resources and have made measurable progress to ensure our work is achieved. This includes recently launching a comprehensive circularity strategy to further advance our sustainability goals and unveiling Color on Demand, a revolutionary dyeing platform that will transform how our industry colors cotton. Our work is far from done. Learn more about our journey to design the change here: https://lnkd.in/g69B_Ua #EarthDay #DesignTheChange #RestoreOurEarth
We are honored to be recognized by Forbes as one of America's Best Large Employers of 2021. At Ralph Lauren, we are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone can be themselves while having a sense of belonging. We are grateful for our teams around the world who deliver the values that define our company and our culture and help us live out our Purpose every day. Find out more about working at Ralph Lauren: https://lnkd.in/dfVvnE2 #LifeAtRL
As we celebrate Black History Month, we will continue to prioritize our year-round commitments to address racial inequalities and inequities. We will also honor Black luminaries who made an indelible mark on American history and have inspired us to dream. Over the course of the month, through virtual employee gatherings and across our social channels, we will highlight Black icons in arts, fashion, and entertainment, put Black history at the forefront, and amplify Black voices within our company. To learn more about our ongoing efforts and to stay updated on how we’re advancing on our commitments, visit us here https://www.ralphlauren.com/solidarity . #BlackHistoryMonth #LifeatRL
This holiday season, we celebrate love. Discover this year’s Holiday campaign featuring stories from eleven families, touching on love, hope, and togetherness, captured by multiple creators from around the world: rlauren.co/FamilyIsWhoYouLove-Y
For the first time, we are expanding our innovative, on-demand manufacturing experience to our outerwear with the introduction of the Custom Packable Jacket. Crafted from recycled fabrics and down-alternative insulation, our new outerwear program gives customers the opportunity to create a personalized jacket. It also reaffirms the Company’s commitment to sustainably source 100% of key materials by 2025, including the use of recycled alternatives. With this expansion of our custom program, Ralph Lauren continues to explore the possibilities of on-demand manufacturing – a model that reduces product waste, better matches inventory to demand and enables rapid fulfillment times, ultimately allowing us to provide a more enhanced experience for our consumers. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ewyWcte #PoloRalphLauren #Innovation #Sustainability
In partnership with Parity.org and a number of our industry peers, we are proud to mark another step forward along our journey in advocating for and working toward gender parity in fashion. Today, we unveiled a new industry roadmap, “Unlocking Gender Parity in Fashion,” that details an actionable five-point plan, adapted from The Parity Model™, for fashion companies to help achieve the greatest results and impact for advancing gender parity and pay equality. The step-by-step roadmap focuses on best practices for areas that include making a visible commitment, creating a strong executive recruitment strategy, ensuring high-potential women are prepared for executive leadership, improving work-life balance through benefits and pay and sustaining pay parity. These actions can be applied to all levels of an organization, no matter its resources or size. Now is the time to act. Our industry has some distance to travel, but through industry-wide adoption and implementation of the points laid out in this roadmap, we can collectively move the industry further, faster.
This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, hear from Nathalie Crews-Vargo, one of our Production Managers at Ralph Lauren, as she opens up about her breast cancer journey and the support she received from her colleagues. At one of our annual Pink Pony Walks, an employee-led event supporting Ralph Lauren’s global initiative in the fight against cancer, Nathalie’s team came together to raise funds in her name and dedicated their walk to her. “I’ve only known some of these people for such a short time, how could I affect their life that they’d be willing to take the time, the effort and the money to raise funds under my name? That was just so shocking and incredibly generous. I really can’t say thank you enough.” Launched in 2000, contributions to the Pink Pony Fund of the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation have gone toward programs that help to ensure quality treatment is available and reduce the disparities in cancer care. Learn more about Pink Pony: https://lnkd.in/e5us_rq #LifeAtRL #PinkPony #PinkPonyWalk
