Airdate: Very Ralph

HBO’s Very Ralph, the first documentary portrait of fashion icon Ralph Lauren, will air on FOX Showcase next month.

The movie-length documentary film is directed and produced by Susan Lacy (Jane Fonda in Five Acts; Spielberg) reveals the man behind the icon and the creation of one of the most successful brands in fashion history.

With an uncanny ability to turn his dreams into reality, Ralph Lauren has built a multi-billion-dollar, global powerhouse out of his aspirations, becoming a living embodiment of American optimism and the American Dream. For more than 50 years, he has celebrated the iconography of America and defined American style, translating his vision and inspiration into one of the world’s most widely recognized brands. In Very Ralph, as he enters his sixth decade in business, Lauren reflects on his journey from a boy from the Bronx who didn’t know what a fashion designer was, to becoming the emblem of American style all around the world.

Offering unprecedented access to his life and work, Ralph Lauren speaks candidly in extensive interviews about his childhood, his five-decade-long marriage, the early days of his company, his response to criticism, his inventive multi-page ad campaigns and his pioneering vision which includes a remarkable series of firsts: Lauren was the first designer to create and market a complete lifestyle brand and expand into home furnishings, one of the first to champion diversity on the runway and in advertising and the first to create immersive retail environments that transformed the shopping experience.

Very Ralph also features vivid archives from 50 years of the fashion brand, as well as intimate, revealing interviews with Lauren’s family, long-standing colleagues and other notables, including Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, André Leon Talley, Hillary Clinton, Jason Wu, Naomi Campbell, Martha Stewart, Calvin Klein, Tyson Beckford, Tina Brown, Diane von Furstenberg and Jessica Chastain.

Susan Lacy has won countless Emmy, Peabody and other industry awards, and has produced and directed a broad library of acclaimed films exploring the lives of America’s most enduring cultural icons. Her previous HBO documentaries include the Emmy-nominee Spielberg, which debuted in 2017 and Jane Fonda in Five Acts, which debuted in 2018.

Very Ralph is an HBO Documentary Film; a Pentimento production; produced and directed by Susan Lacy; produced by Emma Pildes and Jessica Levin and executive produced by Graydon Carter.

This screens express from the US on Wednesday, November 13 at 8.30pm on FOX Showcase.