Brands, valued at more than 8 billion, with 500 stores around the globe. At the helm is a chief executive who came into the job seven years ago with no fashion experience, but determination to return the brand to luxury, attracting younger highvalue customers. Patrice when i started this job, i often got the question, is ralph lauren still relevant . Right . Which is a painful question to listen to, honestly, but we had to some extent lost touch with the younger generation. Francine in this episode of leaders with lacqua, i speak to Patrice Louvet, about the companys founder ralph lauren and his plans to take the company back to its roots. Patrice louvet, thank you so much for joining us on bloomberg. Patrice very happy to be here, francine. Francine do you have the best job in the world . Patrice pretty close. Francine because it is fun . What was the most surprising thing about your job since you first started . Patrice there are so many things. Probably the thing that actually attra
natalie pirks reporting. - time for a look at the weather. here s helen willetts. very dryjuly across much of england and way or is, it might be record breaking and further south in jersey, it has the driestjuly on record, the average, 45 millimetres of rain. so very dry. we will welcome rain across the uk in the next 2a, 48 hours, welcome rain across the uk in the next 24, 48 hours, courtesy of this area of low pressure, but not really where we need it. very much needed in the south. already, that rain marching into northern ireland, progressed into the western fringes of england and wales by the end of play. for many, it is still dry with plenty of sunshine. clearing the overnight cloud, the odd light shower in eastern areas and it is warm. it was a warm night and the south. chile in the north, that is about to change. but 26 locally, 27 in the south. but as that rain marches its way on a strengthening breeze eastwards overnight, heavy and appreciable rain for many as far s
overnight they don t come around dawn temperatures briefly get down to these lows so we start tuesday on a very warm note, in fact this is the hottest wedge of air of this whole period of hot weather, it will sit in place tomorrow, coming in from the west we have frontal systems trying to introduce cooler air, or that hot air stays in place across eastern parts of it stays sunny long enough we could see unprecedented high temperatures so out to the wet summer showers, the odd thunderstorm, belfast and plymouth cooler than today but further east is where we expect the core of the heat, parts of the east midlands and eastern england, lincolnshire could temperatures of 42 celsius tomorrow, that would break the all time uk record but things changed tomorrow night, the showers and storms creep east, most of us will be a bit cooler by wednesday morning and this is the rest of the week, temperatures closer to where they should be, some rain at times but before we get there another v
Francine it started 56 years ago with a tie. Today, ralph lauren is one of the worlds most iconic fashion brands, valued at 8 billion with 500 stores around the globe. At the helm, a chief executive who came into the store seven years ago with no fashion experience but a determination to return the brand to luxury, attracting younger, high value customers. When i started the job, i often got the question, is ralph lauren still relevant . Which is a painful question to listen we had to some extent to honestly . We had to some extent lost that to the younger generation. Francine today, i speak to the ceo of ralph lauren about the Company Founder and his plans to take the company back to its roots. Patrice louvet, thank you so much for joining us on bloomberg. Patrice very happy to be here. Francine do you have the most fun job in the world . Patrice it is pretty fun. Probably the thing that attracted me to this opportunity is the opportunity to work with ralph, right . This man is a visi
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