Ralph Lauren's 'Art of the Automobile' Goes on Display in Paris - GREAT VIDEO

Ralph Lauren at the "Art of the Automobile" exhibition featuring vehicles from his collection

A personal tour of an exquisite car collection

PARIS - April 28, 2011: Ralph Lauren has transported his most exquisite car collection to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris for a special exhibit called “The Art of the Automobile: Masterpieces from the Ralph Lauren Collection”.

The special show starts today and will run until August 28, 2011. Stylish not only in clothing but also in automobiles, world renowned designer Ralph Lauren has established himself as amongst one of the world’s major car collectors.

His impressive collection includes a 1938 Bugatti, a 1958 Ferrari Testa Rossa and a 2010 Lamborghini Murcielago, making Ralph Lauren’s range of cars ‘a museum of automotive history, an archive of performance machines that represent the finest achievements in motorsport’.

A selection of Ralph Lauren’s most prestigious sports cars from the 1930s to the present day were chosen by the curator Rodolphe Rapetti. The choices outline the main phases of European automobile history. With this collection Ralph Lauren shows that the automobile is a major art form created by the industry’s biggest names: Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Porsche and of course, Ferrari, the high point of this unique collection.