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    New Ralph Lauren collection explores collegiate style on historically Black campuses

    A young Black designer got Ralph Lauren to dedicate a new limited collection to the swanky collegiate style of HBCUs.
    by Neda Ulaby Mar 16, 2022 3 minutes
    Ralph Lauren has released a limited fashion collection that collaborates with two leading historically Black colleges. It draws on the work of an all-Black creative team.

    A young woman in a powder blue sweater glances up dreamily from a book she's perusing on a pristine campus lawn.

    Four impossibly strong-jawed college men pose jauntily against an autumnal landscape, one with argyle socks showing off a well-turned calf.

    These images and aesthetics are the sort one might expect from Ralph Lauren, the billion-dollar brand associated with prepster chic. But these pictures represent a new collection the company developed with historically Black Morehouse College and Spelman College for a limited release on March 29. It celebrates an extensive history of elite Black

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