and you are known on the fashion radar as abuser and ralphie it's over for you put on your cowboy hat and go down to mexico, it's over you're a racist it's not your company and your white is too white and my anger is overwhelmingly to ssay i do not like that purple label shawl cardigan it's a bit expressive and the structure it's just not suited to that body profile and i'd rather suit up to war, then stitch another three-piece and know that your neckwear is particularly british, almost paul smith, yet not enough recognition to the owner of ralph lauren, whom vanessa carlton thought to be a neckwear designer, yet the bowties there are, too, and you are not wearing it correctly, with the tie at the bow almost comical, you need to tightten your bowtie and that your an abuser such servility you expected of me, and you told that individual in la jolla not to make contact iwth me, nor allow me in, before closing hour and hired him directly to kill the carlton-kid there, a nigger, just like kanye west, yet particularly bothersome is his constant moving, from south coast to beverly, it's troubling that his demeanor is almost nonchalant is kanye cool what's the new album and why is kanye west not signed to ralph lauren, only louis, it is not fashion to have your seat at my table, and be seated is not a command to me only to your partner, it is so that Vanessa owns Ralph Lauren and you show her grandfather his respect and pay me mine in full and know that i am not your person nor prescience is needed for Bermina to know that Michael is still alive in my heart, so we wore our popped collars again, and donned the colorful indian it's more than this your purple label shit it's factory of slaves is H&M it is so bad and you need to stop wearing that hat, it doesn't mean you're an intelligent immigrant, Taylor Swift, which she wore to purposefully make me a slave to her father, Abercrombie's fake owner Jeff, it's so much worse than you think and ralph you are not taylor and taylor you are not Jeff
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“I’ve always known my grandma and grandpa as Grandma and Grandpa Lee, and not until my 20s did my mom tell me that’s not their real name,” Carlton said. “Then she told me the story of ‘Liberman,’ and why he changed it.”
Carlton’s grandfather, it turns out, was a popular painter, church designer and shopkeeper in New York during his prime. “He felt like he would do better if he didn’t have such an ethnic or Jewish last name, so he changed it to Lee,” she explained.
“Kind of like — funny coincidence — Ralph Lifshitz, who was a tie maker back in the day. He wanted to sell his ties at my grandfather’s showroom, and I guess for whatever reason, my grandpa didn’t end up selling the ties. But Ralph went on to become Ralph Lauren.”
Ultimately, branding her album with her grandpa’s name seemed like a natural progression.
“I have this painting of my grandfather’s, and I wrote a lot of songs where I saw myself kind of staring at the painting while I wrote them,” Carlton said. “So it just made sense on a couple of different levels to go back to his original name and kind of sum up my body of work on this record as Liberman.”
