A model presents a creation from Ralph Lauren Fall 2017 Collection. [Photo provided to China Daily]

In his youth, he was good at basketball and baseball and was inspired by sports. "And I think I was always watching movies. You know, when you are a young person, you don't have the money to travel and go out. When you are growing up, movies, books and magazines are very inspiring and a very important time for that," he said.

"So you've got a picture of the world, a picture of things that you never saw. I never saw these cars. I never saw some of the clothes. I was inspired by what I saw, inspired by John F. Kennedy, some of the American political figures, but he (Kennedy) was always very important to us in many ways."

Lauren's first car was a Morgan, an English sportscar. It's a 1960s car, but looks like a 1930s car, and "has no age". It's a rustic, rugged car. And he still drives it with his family.

He said he drives his cars made in the 1930s as well as now and enjoys both.