Polo Ralph Lauren launches their A Sporting Life campaign in true Ralph Lauren style
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By STEVE MCQUEEN galloping down the pitch, Faye Dunaway reclining on the back of a red Ferrari 275 Spider – has any sport looked as cool as the polo did in 1968 crime caper The Thomas Crown Affair? The Sport of Kings has easily remained one of the most stylish spectator sports across the globe. Its secret, a blend of tailoring and athleisure; preppy touches and pops of colour.
Ralph Lauren has built an entire brand on exactly that instinct. This week, some of Sydney’s most stylish set off in a convoy of luxury rides to the Richmond Lowlands, a green basin at the foot of the Blue Mountains, for the Ralph Lauren Polo Cup, marking the arrival of the brand’s Spring Summer 2026 campaign, A Sporting Life.
Arriving in three chapters, A World of Speed, By the Sea, and On the Green, the campaign treats each sporting pursuit as an aesthetic philosophy rather than a backdrop. The argument Ralph Lauren has been making since the beginning is that elegance and athleticism have never been in opposition.
The guest list reflected as much. Bryn Chapman-Parish, Josh Heuston and Lincoln Younes – three of the more watchable faces in Australian film and television right now – arrived in the brand’s SS26 collection looking as though the afternoon had been designed around them. It probably had.
On the field, the ponies did what ponies do with a dash of adrenaline. Off it, a masterclass in the kind of dressing that doesn’t look like dressing at all.
Check out the fits worn by the guests below.
Benjamin Turland
Lincoln Younes
Tai Hara
Tom Derickx
Brayden Dunbar
Tom Dickinson
Carlos Sanson
Onye Agbarakwe
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