Lauren is a Jew with a highly romanticized yen for the old New England aristocratic/athletic set. Not a bad romance to have. That's where all the riding boots and jackets come from. I still buy a few casuals from the Lauren line. Every year there's a soft and beautifully tailored chambray shirt I have to have, no matter how many I already have.
I remember being a very poor young woman who longed for one of Lauren's Fair Isle sweaters...they were $400 a pop, and that's not adjusted for inflation.
Sameer is just plain bigoted.
Lauren was the perfect designer for our team. I've followed his designs my whole adult life, though I wish I could have afforded them when I was younger.
Lauren is a romantic and his affection for America shows. You see the nautical romance, the equestrian element. He popularized for a few years skirts made of faded old American patchwork quiltes. He had a smashing southwestern line that made every woman go out and buy a squash blossom necklace. I have one, and it cost less than one of his sweaters.
You see old movies in some of his clothes--lots of Katherine Hepburn and Carole Lombard. Women who looked great in sporty clothes. His men's line was a little too elegant, but the women's line was never stiff or overrefined. He did America as well as St. Laurent did French. Probably better.
So Sameer is an effete urban bigot. Maybe he should cross-dress in a sari and show us how it really should be done!