. >> and he truly did project himself into the scenes in which men like gary cooper and cary grant were. he sees the characters that populate his dreams and his visions. and that vision, that ability to step into a fantasy world, ralph brought to the fashion business. >> in one of his only two major television interviews ever, lauren told charlie rose back in 1993 about the enduring impact of those experiences. >> i was very influenced by movies. i was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream, that had a sense of something else. and where i was influenced in these places was the good guy, the hopalong cassidy, not the corny guy, but there was the man on a white horse. my sense was i had an integrity inside me about what i believed in. i did it honestly, but i had a point of view, very strong. >> warren helstein says that when they were teenagers, lauren asked helstein's father, a tailor, to make him one of his first suits. >> but i remember going down to my father's place with him and it was very difficult. i just said to my father, "dad, do whatever he likes." he said, "i c