usatoday.com - 11/19/2008
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The well-worn simile has a new ending these days: as American as the Star-Spangled Banner, as American as Ralph Lauren as American as Barack Obama. The parallels between Obama's story of ascendancy and Lauren's own are obvious, "absolutely," the designer says. "What's so amazing about this ...
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Old Glory Restored
Say Anything —
... A labor of love started under the Clinton Administration, the restoration of Old Glory, first photographed in the Boston Navy Yard (above), was helped along with a $13 million contribution from designer Ralph Lauren. ...
In Nod to Obama & Blackie O, "America's Designer" Not Proud to Be American Last 8 Years
Debbie Schlussel —
... Lauren told USA Today that--like President-Elect Obama's wife, Michelle Hussein Obama a/k/a "Blackie O"--he wasn't proud to be an American for the last eight years (see sidebar column--"I Lied What Obama's Talking About"). And, of course, he's pimping himself to be the new designer outfitter of Blackie O's White House haute couture: ...
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