Ralph Lauren's Polo store at 72d Street and Madison Avenue has a couple of classic short-sleeve sweaters.

She helped oversee the opening of 34 new Polo stores that year.

The purple bottles will appear in Polo stores looking as if they've always been there.

(Champagne in boutiques or cappuccino in Ralph Lauren's Polo stores doesn't count.)

And, of course, he's gone head-to-toe Polo: "I'm the best customer in the Polo store.

It was attended by an executive from Ralph Lauren, who asked him if he had ever seen the Polo store at Madison Avenue and 72d Street.

Nestled in a corner suite on the fourth floor of the Polo store at Madison Avenue and 72d Street, the new boutique opened last Thursday.

Instead, his RL Restaurant, which is adjacent to the Polo store on Michigan Avenue, will be serving Italian food.

"We see it as a commercial mansion, like the Polo store on 72nd and Madison," he said.

Even Equipment's cutting edge is only a block away from Ralph Lauren's richly cluttered, Anglo-clubby Polo store.