Article: The female factor; Ralph Lauren's women's business is on course to one day rival his men's.

Byline: Marc Karimzadeh

When Ralph Lauren celebrated his 40th anniversary with a show in Central Park in September, he chose to stage his milestone moment without a single men's wear look on the runway.

"I think I've shown men's and women's together maybe once or twice, and I think it somehow gets confusing," he told WWD days before the show. "This is also a working event, I'm doing a collection. It's not a separate party. I still have a job to design a collection where writers are going to write about it and do their critique.

"I thought about it," he added. "For a while I was going to do it, and then I changed my mind. I change my mind a lot of times."

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