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SPORTS & TOYS
The Spectacular
Nacho Figueras
POLO STAR AND RALPH LAUREN MODEL
A perfectly sculpted face, eyes that make Ralph Lauren’s iconic models. Figueras has always seen “This [modeling] is a
you a believer, and a polo player’s modeling as a bridge to furthering his passion for polo perfect bridge to help
athletic physique; he makes a lasting with recognition of how the symbiotic relationship of me achieve my dream
impression. Ignacio “Nacho” Figueras his life represents the embodiment of the Ralph Lauren and my vision of polo
began playing polo at the age of nine and by seventeen ideal. becoming a bigger,
was playing professionally in Europe, eventually Figueras currently oversees his spectacular horse- more visible sport."
saddling up on Peter Brant's White Birch team in breeding ranch and captains Ralph Lauren’s Black
Greenwich, Connecticut. By 2009, the Argentinean was Watch team in Argentina, where he and his wife, - Nacho Figueras
ranked as one of the top polo players of the world. Delfina Blaquier, a beautiful model, photographer and
landscape architect, live with their four children - when
Figueras met Ralph Lauren’s photographer, Bruce not traveling the polo circuit.
Weber, at a Hampton party. He posed for his first Ralph
Lauren advertisement in 2000, quickly becoming one of
Photos Courtesy Of: peter ash lee and courtesy of ralph lauren.
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