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June of 2009

 

Rate Fab gifts for him

Original at Philippine Star external link    Tue, Jun 16

 Philippines Comfortable polo shirts from Adam and Ted Baker go best with shorts or pants from John Varvatos. Perry Ellis' piquet polos are also must-have items. In keeping with the season's trend are sneakers, leather shoes, polos, and basic khakis from Faconnable ...

Rate Dear dad: our gift guide for Father's Day fashion - The Gazette

Original at Montreal external link    Mon, Jun 15

The Gazette (Montreal), Canada New York designer John Varvatos (at his in-house Holt Renfrew boutique) says dads don't want ties for Father's Day. MONTREAL - They want gadgets, specifically honking big flat-screen tvs. In fact, in an online poll for Future Shop, more than half of ...

Rate Father's Day gifts (part I): fragrances for him

Original at Examiner.com external link    Mon, Jun 15

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There are so many good scents to choose from, more noteworthy fragrances to experiment with that also come highly recommended by other men include Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez, Hugo Boss, Ralph Lauren, Prada, John Varvatos, Chrome Azzaro, ...

Rate Yesterday and today

Original at Manila Standard Today external link    Fri, Jun 12

 Philippines John Varvatos and Steven Alan. There were also leather items from Orciani, 120% Moda, Mulberry, Oleg Cassini, Steve Mono, Hartford, Faconnable and Perry Ellis. On hand to personally welcome the guests were Rustan's Commercial Corp. executive vice ...

Rate JOHN VARVATOS Rock Volume One

Original at Viewonfashion external link    Wed, Jun 10

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 Spain The bottle reflects the American designer's style and features his four icons. The base mixes vanilla and tobacco, while the middle notes are dominated by roses and coffee with hints of fig. The fragrance costs $82 and it goes on sale in his stores in ...

Rate Thirsty interviews Mandy Stein, director of "Burning Down The ...

Original at Stay Thirsty Media external link    Sun, May 31

 IL Little did I know that John Varvatos (menswear designer) was going to move in there and preserve it the best he could...but at the closing point nobody knew what was going to come out of that. Luckily John did move in there and preserve the state of ...

May of 2009

 

Rate Varvatos Celebrates Space in Holt Renfrew

Original at Women's Wear Daily external link    Fri, May 29

by Jocelyn Anderson John Varvatos celebrated the launch of his Bowery NYC store concept at Holt Renfrew in Montreal on Wednesday, complete with a live performance by Montreal-based band The Stills. The menswear brand first debuted the rock 'n' roll ...

Rate Varvatos Cuts Jobs

Original at Women's Wear Daily external link    Sun, May 10

by WWD Staff John Varvatos Enterprises, a division of VF Corp., laid off 12 people, or 4 percent of its workforce, at the end of April. The cuts, made in stores and across all areas of corporate, were a response... Subscribe now to WWD. ...

Rate John Varvatos...born In Detroit

Original at Fashion & Runway external link    Fri, May 8

Fashion & Runway, NY For Fall/Winter 2000, John launched his premiere men's collection and in the same year was recognized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) with the Perry Ellis Award for New Menswear Designer. He has a total of three awards from CFDA ...

Rate David Johansen's New York Dolls Return to Old CBGB, Now John ...

Original at New York Observer external link    Wed, May 6

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 NY - Joe Pompeo, Joe Pompeo By Joe Pompeo On Tuesday, May 5, the John Varvatos boutique at 315 Bowery was perhaps the only nightspot on all of the Lower East Side where someone in his late '20s or early '30s might actually feel young. Like, really young. ...

Rate Detroit Rock City redux

Original at GQ external link    Tue, May 5

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Designer and sometime rock curator John Varvatos has signed up for another part-time job: DJ. Starting with a live broadcast of a New York Dolls show tonight from their record-release party at his 315 Bowery Store (which, as you may have heard, ...

April of 2009

 

Rate Personality Crises

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    Wed, Apr 29

  USA For hip designer John Varvatos, rock'n'roll isn't a fashion statement. It's a lifestyle. Motor City native Varvatos, who opened a Geary Street shop a year ago, has long talked of doing a radio rock show. Now, it's coming to pass. ...

Rate Music walk

Original at Time Out New York external link    Tue, Apr 28

 NY Now the space is occupied by fashion designer John Varvatos (315 Bowery at Bleecker St; 212-358-0315, johnvarvatos.com), a man who had the gall to use Cheap Trick in an advertising campaign. While the commercialism of it all (and way-overpriced hi-fi ...

Rate John Varvatos Sirius XM Radio show 'Born in Detroit' debuts May 2

Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com external link    Mon, Apr 27

 CA In my January profile of John Varvatos, I mentioned that the rock 'n' roll-smitten menswear designer was finalizing a deal to host a monthly radio show for Sirius XM Radio. That deal has apparently been finalized, and we've received word from the ...

Rate Are you Joe's Jeans' next top model?

Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com external link    Thu, Apr 23

Earlier this week we told you about music-loving fashion designer John Varvatos' new rock star search. But what's a rocker without a model in his or her entourage? Luckily, Joe's Jeans has stepped up to the plate. In a separate contest being held in ...

Rate John Varvatos and Island Records: Fashion that rocks?

Original at latimesblogs.latimes.com external link    Wed, Apr 22

If that's your vision -- especially the bit about the clothing lines -- you'll like the path to fame dangled by rock-loving fashion designer John Varvatos and music label Island Records, who are teaming up for what they're billing as the first-ever ...

Rate Varvatos Teams With Island for Battle of Bands

Original at Women's Wear Daily external link    Mon, Apr 20

by Jean Scheidnes John Varvatos Enterprises has partnered with Island Records and Spin to create a rock band talent competition, a move to extend the brand's alliance with the music world. Subscribe now to WWD.COM, now incorporating WWDMen's channel ...

Year 2009

 

Rate ZZ Top Performs at John Varvatos 7TH Annual Stuart House Benefit ... - Earthtimes

Original at Earthtimes.org external link    Mon, Mar 9

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Partner, Converse, Presenting Sponsor, VF Corporation, and Sponsors, GQ, Little Tikes, JV Fragrances & Skincare, Ernst Benz, Base Curve, Crumbs Bake Shop, Kipling, Saks Fifth Avenue, George Weintraub & Sons, Beaute Prestige International, ...

Rate John Varvatos Hosts Annual Benefit for Stuart House

Original at style.hollyscoop.com external link    Mon, Mar 9

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For the seventh year, John Varvatos hosted his annual benefit event for the children’s wing of the The Stuart House, the rape treatment center at the Santa Monica-UCLA medical facility on Sunday afternoon outside his West Hollywood boutique. ...

Rate Inside New York

Original at iAfrica.com external link    Thu, Feb 26

 South Africa Here you’ll find everything from the chic boutiques of fresh designers just starting out, to the more established Sao, TSE and John Varvatos, as well as vintage shops such as the Chelsea Girl, Patina and What Goes Around Comes Around. ...

Rate Model hard: John Varvatos, Look #38

Original at GQ external link    Wed, Jan 21

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 - An ongoing series of posts celebrating those magical moments when a young man puts on a designer look and models the shit out of it. To post a comment, ...

Rate John Varvatos: The Comeback Kid

Original at Women's Wear Daily external link    Wed, Jan 14

 - Subscribe today to WWD.com, now incorporating comprehensive menswear and footwear coverage with the new WWDMen's and Footwear News channels, for complete ...

Rate SELLING AN IMAGE: New York-based John Varvatos, who hopes to go ...

Original at Los Angeles Times external link    Fri, Jan 9

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 CA - In the pause between his brand's launch in South Korea and a star-studded charity bash to mark his new Malibu outpost, the 53-year-old menswear designer is ...

Rate 2008 Year In Review: Fashion Industry Holds Its Own

Original at NY1 external link    Wed, Dec 24

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 NY - Menswear designer John Varvatos opened up a new boutique in April at the old Bowery home of CBGB's, where he's been hosting monthly concerts performed by ...

Rate Gilt Groupe Sample Sales - McQueen, Marc Jacobs, Varvatos, Kara Ross and more

Original at Bag Bliss external link    Thu, Dec 18

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By Jennifer Discover Gilt Groupe Up-and-coming and current Gilt Groupe Sample Sales. December 18, 2008 Lauren Merkin (extended!) Alexander McQueen Mens Alexander McQueen RTW + Accessories Sophia Cashmere Parke & Ronen Swim Marc by Marc Jacobs womans + accessories Anthony Nak Kara Ross Dece...

Rate This Week on Ruelala: Prada, John Varvatos, Portolano, Hanky Panky, Fendi and More

Original at ShopDiary external link    Mon, Nov 24

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ShareThis Lots of sales abound this week and Ruelala continues to offer an eclectic mix of labels to get you shopping. There’s a pretty good selection of cashmere scarves and leather gloves for men and women by Portolano. John Varvatos cuff shirts, sweaters and pants are almost 80% off. Tomo...

Rate Bowery Reborn -- Courant.com

Original at Hartford Courant external link    Sat, Nov 15

•John Varvatos, 315 Bowery at Bleecker: Directly across from Double Crown is a legendary address: 315 Bowery, well known to Bowery Boys and Girls, was the home for more than 30 years to the iconic club CBGB. ...

Rate ZAC EFRON GETS A WAX

Original at Ethan Says external link    Thu, Oct 9

By "E" COM, "the hottest thing to hit the fashion business in years" and one of the leading online destinations for discounted designer merchandise, is set to expand to menswear on October 13th. From Gucci and Armani to John Varvatos and ...

Rate Tim Gunn to Host Fashion Forward 2008 Event

Original at nitro external link    Mon, Oct 6

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By retrogurl Who: Special guest host Tim Gunn, Andrew Buckler, Bethann Hardison, Betsey Johnson, Derek Lam, Italo Zucchelli, John Bartlett, Michael Kors, Stan Herman, CFDA President Steven Kolb, and Sue Stemp. Designers presenting their collections include: Ports 1961 by Tia Cibani, Michael Ba...

Rate Designated buyers need not apply

Original at GQ external link    Thu, Oct 2

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 - Their discovery: The most successful men's shops, like J.Crew's new Tribeca store and John Varvatos' Bowery outpost, cater to interests besides shopping. ...

Rate Fashon Week: Varvatos' Rock and Retail

Original at Conde Nast Portfolio external link    Thu, Sep 11

By Sara Clemence Now that he's turned legendary rock club CBGB into a clothing store, John Varvatos has to prove that carefully tended vestiges of indie cred can mix successfully with slick big-brand marketing. Sure, Varvatos built a booming business ...

Rate Designers Seek Foreign Sales

Original at WSJ.com external link    Thu, Sep 4

By Vanessa O'Connell and Cheryl Lu-Lien TanAs New York's fashion week starts Friday, many designers are courting overseas retailers in an effort to make up for expected cutbacks in orders from U.S. department stores.Oscar de la Renta Ltd. expects buyers from 25 foreign stores at its runway...

Rate Speaker box

Original at GQ external link    Mon, Aug 18

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 - It's been a busy year for John Varvatos: The designer's already opened two new stores (including, you might have heard, one in CBGB), and today he debuts a ...

Rate Clothing and charity at Varvatos opening

Original at San Francisco Chronicle external link    Thu, Jul 31

  USA - The John Varvatos boutique opened with a lavish $75-a-ticket cocktail party and concert featuring a Los Lonely Boys performance that filled the makeshift ...

Rate Tim Gunn, Political Strategist?

Original at Jezebel external link    Fri, Jun 20

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By Sadie Stein Project Runway's silver fox considers the difficult task of making John McCain work: "That’s a challenge," Tim Gunn says. "Give him some color. I'd give him better-fitting suits — Hugo Boss, John Varvatos. I mean, I will say, he's a man of a certain age, so at least he's cleaned up and polished....

Rate Converse Jack Purcell John Varvatos - White & Black

Original at Sneaker external link    Wed, May 21

By Sneaker News In addition to the Converse Chuck Taylor Multi Eyelets by John Varvatos, the designer collaboration collection is also introducing two colorways of the Jack Purcell for the Summer. As with the eyelets on the Varvatos Chucks, ...

Rate JOHN VARVATOS OPENS IN SAN FRANCISCO’S UNION SQUARE

Original at Haute Concept external link    Tue, May 20

By Haute Concept Fresh off his newly opened NY boutique in the reincarnated CBGB’s John Varvatos has headed to the west side to open a store in San Francisco. The store, which will be his seventh, is a 6500 square foot unit in the Union Square ...

Rate John Varvatos Sample Sale… For the Men

Original at The Purse Page external link    Tue, May 6

By Mariana L. If you’re not familiar with the line, you have probably seen some of the black/white Alice Cooper ads on cabs, GQ designer of the year last year, and they recently made press for taking over the old CBGB space for their flagship ...

Rate Latest & Greatest

Original at Gridskipper external link    Wed, Apr 9

By Debbie Lee • John Varvatos: What was once CBGB's is now a retail venue for high-priced menswear. • Monogram: Banana Republic opens a downtown boutique for its new high-end clothing line. • Slurp: A new, slickly designed Vietnamese restaurant ...

Rate CBGB's is now a John Varvatos menswear boutique

Original at Styledash external link    Wed, Apr 9

By Cat Lincoln On Monday, CBGB's died one last time and was reborn as a pricey John Varvatos menswear boutique. Hmmm. I'm thinking $130 tshirts are totally not punk. On the other hand, Varvatos has pretty good rock and roll connections, and 315 Bowery ...

Rate Tattle: Series to show Pammy's 'many dimensions' - Philadelphia Daily News

Original at Untitled external link    Tue, Apr 8

Tattle: Series to show Pammy's 'many dimensions'  PA - In the East Village spot where CBGB once was a premiere performance space for punk, there now stands a John Varvatos menswear boutique with posters and ...

Rate Shop Easy

Original at New York Sun external link    Mon, Apr 7

By PIA CATTON Two new shops in downtown Manhattan are pointing toward the future of retailing. At John Varvatos and Banana Republic's Monogram, both of which recently opened along Bleecker Street, the emphasis is not only on engaging the shopper, but the shopper's companions, too. The new John Varvat...

Rate Portion Of Former CBGB Reopens As Menswear Store - NY1

Original at NY1 external link    Mon, Apr 7

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Portion Of Former CBGB Reopens As Menswear Store  NY - While many of the clothes at the new store, named for the designer John Varvatos, may be new, much of the décor is familiar. The walls with posters and ...

Year 2007

 

Rate Legendary Rock Club CBGB Achieves The Impossible, Sells Out Even More [Rag Trade]

Original at Jezebel external link    Wed, Nov 7

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By Jennifer Designer John Varvatos has bought the space formerly occupied by rock club CBGB's to open a new store. He's the one who designs clothes for Converse, which is that super-hip iconoclastic footwear brand owned by Nike, and... Move to North Korea if you hate capitalism so much! [Fashion Week Dai...

Rate LL Cool J uses fashion as a metaphor for his beef with Jay-Z

Original at MissInfo.tv external link    Mon, Oct 1

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By missinfo “We need to meet and figure it out,” LL Cool J said. “It’s tough. Let’s be real. You know, they have an artist running a label full of artists. Okay? That’s like Calvin Klein * running a fashion label and John Varvatos ** and everyone else is underneath him. What kind of sense does that make? This hie...

Rate Krisol Boutique and Funnel Mill Cafe, Los AngelesVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Blogcritics external link    Tue, Jul 3

By LX.TV This week, dress and drink up at a 3rd Street boutique, and we've got a new haute-café that's sure to have you buzzing. Krisol Los Angeles 323.966.5808 Funnel Mill 930 Broadway, Suite A / between Ninth and Tenth Streets Santa Monica / Los Angeles

Rate Alex Kuczynski: 'John Varvatos Is Trying To Live A Death'

Original at gawker.com external link    Thu, Jun 7

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By Emily Gould According to the authoritative reference guide Urban Dictionary, 37 out of 47 voters agree that the "white man's overbite" is "derogatory term used to describe the facial expression white people make while dancing." How laceless Chucks are similar to this offensive display of whitey u...

Rate Shop Making Sense: Alex Kuczynski: 'John Varvatos Is Trying To Live A Death'

Original at Gawker external link    Thu, Jun 7

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At long last, facially-reconfigured semiotician Alex Kuczynski has returned to her old stomping grounds in the Times' Thursday Styles section, and she's more inscrutable than ever! Yay! Reporting on John Varvatos' new Hamptons outpost, she describes the popularity of the designer...

Rate Long Island Slaver Suing Armani Over Perfume

Original at gawker.com external link    Fri, May 18

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By jliu If this weekend's Journal Pursuits is to be believed, the centuries-long mega-trend of boys who want to be pretty like girls has colonized one more of the 5.5 human senses. Guys are buying perfumes by the likes of Burberry, John Varvatos, as well as Kenneth Cole's R.S.V.P., and Tom Ford's "Tusca...

Rate Dude Smells Like A Captive Lady: Long Island Slaver Suing Armani Over Perfume

Original at Gawker external link    Fri, May 18

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If this weekend's Journal Pursuits is to be believed, the centuries-long mega-trend of boys who want to be pretty like girls has colonized one more of the 5.5 human senses. Guys are buying perfumes by the likes of Burberry, John Varvatos, as well as Kenneth Cole's R.S.V.P., and Tom Ford's "Tusca...

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