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!
One thing about this year’s Olympic uniforms is their resemblance to the uniforms the Chinese teams wore at the 1984 Olympics. I saw video of their march-in, on an NBC show about the politics of the Olympics. The point was that because the Chinese showed up in LA after the USSR decided to boycott, they effectively kept the Olympices from becoming a totally political east/west divided event, which would have really killed the whole concept of Olympics.
I wonder if the Ralph Lauren team knew about the 1984 uniforms?