• An Evening with Bobby Short
• Dinner for Martin Traub
• 'Broadway's in Fashion'
• Metropolitan Museum 'Man and the Horse Gala'
• 1987 CFDA Awards
• Valentine's Day Art Show
• Ricky Lauren on 'Safari'
• Ricky and Ralph Lauren Sighting
• American Foundation for AIDS Research Masquerade Ball
• Woolmark Awards for Men's Fashion
• Kids for Kids Benefit for the Pediatric AIDS Foundation
• 1998 CFDA Awards
• 2007 CFDA Awards
• Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care Reception
• Dylan's Candy Bar Relaunch Celebration
• 2009 CFDA Fashion Awards
• 'The Art of Fashion in the Hamptons'
• New York City Ballet Fall Gala
• An Evening with Ralph Lauren
• 'Publication of The Hamptons: Food, Family, and History'
• 'The Hamptons: Food, Family, and History' Celebration
• Ralph Lauren Fall 2013 Collection Dinner
• 2018 CFDA Fashion Awards
• Ralph Lauren Spring 2025 Show
• Ralph Lauren Show
• Ralph Lauren Runway Finale, New York Fashion Week

• Plaza Hotel, New York, May 1973

At a benefit at the Plaza, a barely-30 Ricky played the early-'70s siren in a plunging cross-halter top and slim tapered trousers, hoop earrings and a little beaded evening bag. Ralph matched her wattage in a velvet dinner jacket and a silver concho belt, an early flash of the Western hardware that would become a Ralph Lauren calling card.

• Le Club, New York, 1977

At a dinner honoring Bloomingdale’s chairman Marvin Traub, she wore a cream peaked-lapel skirt suit with a long rope of pearls and a crocheted top-handle bag. The look echoes Ralph Lauren’s Fall 1977 eveningwear, while Traub’s presence closes the circle—he was the retailer who gave Polo its first in-store shop at Bloomingdale’s.

• Broadhurst Theatre, New York, October 1978

At the CFDA benefit for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Ricky wore a black velvet blazer over a white shirt and narrow knit tie, adding frontier bravado with dark corduroy trousers and elaborately stitched cowboy boots.

• New York, December 1984

For the Costume Institute’s Man and the Horse gala, the equestrian exhibition underwritten by Ralph Lauren, Ricky arrived in a fur-collared coat cinched by an embellished belt and finished with long gloves. The proportions evoke Edwardian riding clothes, while the sweep of fur and jeweled waist place them squarely in 1980s New York.

• Metropolitan Museum, January 1987

At the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards at the Met, Ricky wore a one-shouldered black gown with a softly draped bodice and a wrap folded over one arm. Beside Ralph in a tuxedo jacket, bow tie and jeans, her uninterrupted column of black provides the disciplined half of the pairing.

• Park Avenue Armory, New York, February 1989

For a night at the armory art show, Ricky went full Santa Fe in a Navajo-pattern blanket coat over a red western shirt, rolled jeans and a concho belt loaded with turquoise to match the cuffs stacked on her wrists. The coat and metalwork connect directly to the visual world Ralph had developed since his 1981 Santa Fe collection, while the rolled denim and open collar keep the look grounded.

• New York, March 1990

Photographed at home for a WWD “Eye” feature on her photography book Safari, Ricky wears the look she more or less patented—a tweed herringbone sport coat thrown over a denim jacket over a pale work shirt, khaki trousers and a tangle of charm necklaces. The outfit is vintage Polo: this is the boyfriend's-jacket-and-a-good-story ethos Ralph named the Polo Persona.

• Tavern on the Green, New York, April 1991

Arriving at Tavern on the Green, Ricky swapped her usual cool neutrals for a jolt of color—a hot-pink satin opera coat draped over a black column gown, worn with long black gloves and soft evening curls. The pink does all the talking, which is about as loud as she ever gets. It marks a rare turn toward Hollywood glamour from a woman who made her name on the opposite.

• World Financial Center, New York, December 1991

At amfAR’s masquerade ball, Ricky dressed for command in a scarlet hussar-style jacket studded with brass, black palazzo trousers, bullion-embroidered cuffs and a satin cape cast over one shoulder. Her husband’s spare double-breasted tuxedo sharpens the effect as she answers the evening’s costume brief through military tailoring rather than a Venetian mask.

• New York Public Library, New York, June 1992

Here, Ricky reversed the military idea in white, wearing a high-collared regimental jacket with gold braid, polished buttons and a medal over fluid wide-leg trousers. A red clutch breaks the uniform, while Ralph’s black tuxedo turns the pair into a study in crisp, almost heraldic contrast.

• Industria Superstudio, New York, September 1994

For the Kids for Kids benefit, Ricky wore a long white tunic shirt with a studded suede vest, a slim black belt, leggings and wooden clogs. Beside Ralph in double denim and framed by hay bales and pumpkins, she could be stopping at an Amagansett pumpkin patch.

• Cipriani, New York, February 1998

Ricky turned the ivory dinner jacket into a setting for jewelry, wearing its satin peak lapels over a bare décolletage encircled by a broad pearl-and-crystal choker. Against Ralph’s black tuxedo, the look captures her method neatly: borrow the structure of menswear, then alter the terms.

• New York Public Library, New York 2007

At the ceremony where Oprah Winfrey presented Ralph with the American Fashion Legend Award, Ricky wore a strapless gold gown with an embroidered corset above a softly beaded skirt. The bronze clutch, bare neckline and loose hair temper all that gilt.

• Sotheby's, New York, September 2007

At Sotheby’s, Ricky wore a fitted patchwork-denim jacket with a matching knee-length skirt and pointed navy pumps. The fabric belongs to quilts and workwear, but the articulated seams, nipped waist and narrow heel pull it decisively uptown.

• New York, October 2008

At the relaunch of the candy emporium founded by her daughter, Dylan, Ricky dressed for the family business in a scarf-print silk blouse saturated with pink, yellow and cobalt, anchored by an oversized black bow, narrow trousers and knee-high boots. The real pleasure was seeing a woman so closely associated with her husband’s world step, for one night, into her daughter’s Technicolor one.

• Alice Tully Hall, New York, June 2009

Ricky framed a white ruffled shirt and white trousers with a navy military jacket dense with gold embroidery, then added a sculpted belt, metallic clutch and glittering espadrille platforms. The jacket revisits the regimental looks she wore in 1991 and 1992, this time translated from formal uniform into summer eveningwear.

• Guild Hall, East Hampton, August 2009

At Guild Hall’s gala for The Art of Fashion in the Hamptons, Ricky paired a white ruffled blouse with slim, painterly floral trousers and a narrow chain-strap bag. The loose hair and pale ground suit the East End setting, while the printed trousers introduce color without competing with the blouse’s volume.

• Lincoln Center, New York, September 2011

At the ballet’s fall gala, Ricky wore an emerald satin wrap gown gathered at the waist with a slender black belt, adding turquoise drop earrings and a compact black clutch. The diagonal neckline and fluid skirt supply movement, while the absence of a necklace leaves the broad V uninterrupted.

• Lincoln Center, New York, October 2011

For the Oprah Winfrey-hosted evening celebrating Ralph, Ricky chose a sleeveless black satin gown with a sculptural standing collar and folded volume gathered behind one hip. Severe and almost aerodynamic from the front, the silhouette saves its flourish for the turn.

• Ralph Lauren Women's Boutique, New York, May 2012

At the launch of her Hamptons book, Ricky wore a pearl-gray Ralph Lauren three-piece suit with wide-leg trousers, a white club-collar shirt, liquid-silver tie and metallic sandals. The waistcoat and tie make a fitting author portrait for the woman who taught the house how menswear could sit on a female body.

• East Hampton, August 2012

Celebrating her Hamptons book and magazine cover, Ricky wore a white cotton shirtdress with a tiered eyelet skirt, cinched by a broad concho belt and finished with a silver cuff, shoulder-skimming earrings and lace-up espadrille wedges. Prairie lace and ranch hardware may make unlikely neighbors, yet on Ricky, they share a property line.

• École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, October 2013

At the Paris dinner marking Ralph Lauren’s patronage of the École des Beaux-Arts restoration, Ricky paired a fitted black turtleneck with a ruched taffeta fishtail skirt, wide studded belt and long gold earrings. The Fall 2013 collection drew on imperial Russia; Ricky reduces the theme to two decisive gestures, volume below the waist and metal at it.

• New York, 2018

Celebrating Ralph Lauren’s 50th-anniversary year, Ricky wore a black tailcoat with a high white shirt, narrow tie, engraved belt and pooling trousers. Ralph paired his tuxedo jacket with faded jeans and neon Salomon trail shoes, while Ricky stayed with black and white, pushing borrowed menswear to its most formal conclusion.

• Khalily Stables, Bridgehampton, September 2024

In a front-row lineup that placed Jude Law, Tom Hiddleston and USher under the same equestrian tent, Ricky wore a white blazer and slim trousers with fringed side seams, a pale shirt and taupe ankle boots. Beside Dylan in tiered patchwork denim and a heavy concho belt, mother and daughter divided the house vocabulary between them: Ricky took the tailoring, Dylan took the West.

• New York, April 2025

Outside the Fall 2025 show, Ricky wore Ralph Lauren head to toe: a salt-and-pepper jacket, white ruffled blouse, slim gray trousers, silver belt and tonal heeled boots. The engraved buckle and ruffled placket reprise details visible as far back as her 1970s appearances, while the close chromatic dressing keeps them current.

• New York, 2026

Taking the Fall 2026 finale beside Ralph, Ricky wore a long black blazer cinched with an engraved silver buckle over a high-necked white ruffled blouse, opaque leggings and pointed ankle boots. The final bow brings the retrospective back to its starting point: a man’s jacket, white shirt, narrow black lower half and one piece of Western silver.