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Open this photo in gallery:Designer Alfredo Paredes.Frank Frances Studio/SuppliedIn 1986, Ralph Lauren opened his flagship store at the corner of 72nd Street and Madison Avenue in what was once the Rhinelander Mansion, built in 1898 by a reclusive heiress who never moved in.Lauren knew the French chateau, in the heart of Manhattan, would be the perfect backdrop for his brand’s moneyed style, part English aristocracy, part sporty American East Coast elite. In the storefront’s eight picture windows he created dreamscapes into another world, where beautiful people play croquet, polo and fly first-class.The person Lauren tasked with executing his vision of…

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