Ralph Lauren Corporation is an American luxury lifestyle company founded in 1967 by designer Ralph Lauren, who started by selling neckties under the Polo name. Today it is a global house of brands spanning apparel, footwear and accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality, selling an aspirational vision of timeless American style across roughly 24,000 employees and more than $8 billion in annual revenue. Known for its polo-player emblem and cinematic marketing, the company operates a direct-to-consumer, omnichannel model of retail stores, wholesale partnerships, digital commerce, and licensing that reaches customers in over 100 countries.
Tory Burch is a New York-based luxury lifestyle brand founded in 2004 by designer Tory Burch. Blending preppy American sportswear with bohemian and eclectic details, it sells ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes, accessories, jewelry, fragrance, beauty, home decor and the Tory Sport activewear line through roughly 400 stores worldwide, wholesale partners and multi-language e-commerce. The privately held, family-run company generated an estimated $1.8 billion in retail sales in 2024. From the start the brand was built to fund a mission: the Tory Burch Foundation, launched in 2009, advances women's entrepreneurship through access to capital, education and a fellowship program.