John Varvatos

More shopping options for the FiDi set: While Brookfield Place’s retailers have been partially revealed over the past few months, including DvF, Saks…

 Indochine turned 30 on Friday night with a birthday bash for the books, put on by M·A·C Cosmetics. Padma Lakshmi, The Blonds’ David…

 Indochine turned 30 on Friday night with a birthday bash for the books, put on by M·A·C Cosmetics. Padma Lakshmi, The Blonds’ David…

The Upper East Side got the John Varvatos rock ‘n roll treatment last night, as the menswear designer sat down with Fern Mallis at the 92Y. Opening this installment of her “Fashion Icons” Q&A series, the hostess of the eve remarked: “If I would ever agree to have a blind date again in my life, and the door opened [to] the man wearing John Varvatos, we’d be off to a great start.” Beginning at the designer’s start in Detroit and touching upon his stints at Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, there were plenty of fun tidbits from the chic chat.
BY DENA SILVER

In her latest edition of Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis, John Varvatos is put in the hotseat to discuss the fashion industry from an insider’s perspective.

Fascinated by rock & roll history? Forget schlepping to Cleveland. Just take a meeting with John Varvatos at his Chelsea offices, where Slash’s hat and Zeppelin’s gold records live alongside his shelf of CFDAs. The biggest music junky in the biz talks us through his holdings. BY EDDIE ROCHE

Tucked atop a relatively petite building on 57th Street off Fifth Ave. lies a bespoke connoisseur’s veranda-detailed hautespot in the form of Bellucci Napoli, a custom tailoring outfit by Naples native Nedo Bellucci started less than a decade ago. What’s the trick to Bellucci’s trade? We got the immaculately fitted scoop!
BY ALEXANDRA ILYASHOV

Where do Fashion and music collide at this year’s South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas? Look no further for your dose of this week’s conferences, concerts, and parties of chic note. From intimate Q&As Billy Reid and John Varvatos to bashes thrown by chaussure brands of note, we’ve got your SXSW social bases covered.

Fresh from the reality-TV trenches, menswear maestro John Varvatos is still getting used to people asking for his autograph. The Daily stopped by his boutique on the Bowery to find out how he’s keeping his cool.
BY EDDIE ROCHE

And we’re off! “It starts earlier every year,” Ariel Foxman told us last night about the official launch of NYFW festivities. John Varvatos kicked things off with a bash at new haute spot Houston Hall (a former auto garage in the West Village), featuring jams by Questlove, to celebrate the new JohnVarvatos.com.