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I collect vintage vinyl records.
John Varvatos / Designer
Vintage
Collect
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Sit-ups and push-ups work without a gym.
John Varvatos / Designer
Gym
Push Ups
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I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.
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Pop Music
Young Age
Age Music Young
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Guys out there have no sense of how their clothes should fit.
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No Sense
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I like someone who has a little bad boy in them, a little edge.
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Bad Boy
Bad Boy Bad Boy
Edge
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I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.
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Ease
Online
Shop
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People will always have their opinions; I've come to learn whose matter.
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People Will Always
Opinions
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I believe that if you think about what style means, you won't become a fashion victim.
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Believe
Fashion
Mean
Victim
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A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.
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Attend
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Canada - they won't like me saying this, but it's really like it's a part of Michigan, that area.
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Canada
Michigan
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Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.
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Dominant
Everyday
Everyday Life
Life Music Always
Life Music Me
Dominant Force
Escape
Young Kid
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It's not so much the color of suit as it is about the fit, cut, style, and, of course, attitude you have when wearing it.
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Attitude
Color
Cutting
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Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish guy.
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Fashionable
Gary
Guy
Jimmy
Mars
Pages
Stylish
Ad
Junior
Page
Super
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My passion in life, besides my family, was always music. From the time I was a kid, I was obsessed. I'm like the ultimate fan.
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Ultimate
Life Time Family
Besides
Life Family Time
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I spent a lot of years working for Ralph Lauren, and he had so many copycats, from Tommy Hilfiger to Abercrombie & Fitch to J.Crew.
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Copycats
Lauren
Years
Ralph
Ralph Lauren
Tommy
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Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.
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Moving
Old And New
Philosophy
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The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.
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Constant
Change Great Me
Great Thing
Inspires
Push
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When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it.
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Best
Construction
Sewing
Beautiful Man Look
Man
Fabrics
Fits
Look
In The End
Suit
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You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.
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Clothes
Logos
Wanted
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The biggest ones [online stores] I go back to are Amazon.com and eBay.com because it’s great for music and books... I collect vintage vinyl records.
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Records
Vintage
Vinyl
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When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.
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Hendrix
Mcqueen
Rock Star
Steve
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When you do men's wear, it's less about thinking outside the box than about pushing the walls of the box outward. Men want to be evolutionary, not revolutionary.
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Pushing
Revolutionary
Box
Evolutionary
Outward
Walls
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A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.
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Notebook
Ethos
Inspiration
Writing
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A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
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Notebook
Ethos
Inspiration
Leather
Doodle
Sketch
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I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.
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Band
Bird
British
Invasion
Stooges
Zeppelins
Alice
Alice Cooper
Favorite
Cooper
Led
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.
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Cutting
Sneakers
Talking
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I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.
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Icons
Bands
Photos
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I never wanted to be the face of the brand. You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.
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Ads
Brand
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I always talk about a great-fitting pair of jeans. Girls are concerned about the way their butt looks in a pair of jeans, and I think a guy having a really great-fitting pair of jeans is just as important.
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Jeans
Butt
Pair
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A black suit can be classic and timeless and certainly for most occasions. But remember, it's not so much the color of suit as it is about the fit, cut, style, and, of course, attitude you have when wearing it.
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Attitude
Classic
Color
Fit
Timeless
Cut
Wearing
Suit
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Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to our brand. It means we are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses.
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Different Things
Executing
Funny Things
Mean
People
Variety
Wide
Brand
Businesses
Connect
Different People
Funny Thing
Manner
Pleased
Speaks
Success Is
Wide Variety
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My vision is the ability to design clothes for a man who wants to create his own style and doesn't want to dress like he's in uniform, to look like the guy in the ad, or to feel like he has to put it together that way.
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Design
Clothes
Vision
Ad
Design Clothes
Uniform
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Success is a funny thing. It means different things to different people. For me, I am always pleased when people connect to your brand. It means you are executing in a manner that speaks to a wide variety of businesses.
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Different
Mean
People
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Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.
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Dean
Icons
Instantaneous
Mtv
Elvis
Exploded
Fifties
James
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When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.
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Inspiration
Magazines
Xerox
Collection
Photographs
Notebooks
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I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.
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Labels
Nurturing
Music New Way
Gotten
Wondering
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The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas. I have a heavy travel schedule so being in a new environment always gives me another perspective to see things from.
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Giving
Moving
Perspective
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In the early '70s, coming out of the '60s, it was very hippy or it was very uniform, like The Beatles all wearing the same suit. Into the '70s, it became much more about a personal style. You had the glam period, which was a lot of fun, and then you went into punk.
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Glam
Personal Style
Punk
Hippy
Suit
Uniform
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The thing about the basics is they don't really change - it's the details and the proportions that change. The shirt may be cut slimmer or looser, the suit might be darker or lighter, the sneakers might not have laces, but you're still talking about shirts and suits and sneakers.
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Basics
Details
May
Might
Sneakers
Talking
Cut
Darker
Lighter
Looser
Proportions
Shirt
Suit
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Style is timeless. It transcends generations - it's enduring. If you're thinking about fashion, it's of the moment. And that doesn't mean that it's not important at times to embrace trends and that type of thing, but style is less about trends than it is about how you carry yourself.
John Varvatos / Designer
Embrace
Fashion
Generations
Important
Mean
Style
Thinking
Timeless
Type
Yourself
Thing
Less
Carry
How
Enduring
Moment
Than
Transcends
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For me, growing up in Detroit, scarves meant cold weather. But I remember working in a store, and we had some silk scarves - like, wide scarves with fringe - and because I had seen the English rockers wearing skinny silk scarves, I took the scarves, cut and sewed them, and made them long - almost like a tie.
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Cold
Cold Weather
Detroit
Fringe
Rockers
Silk
Skinny
Weather
Wide
Me Long Remember
Store
Tie
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Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.
John Varvatos / Designer
Business
Changed
Example
Rhythm
Status Quo
Taught
Business Great Always
Challenge
Crashing
Deal
Further
Great Deal
Market
Obstacle
Push
Quo
Status
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There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock n' roll in soul, there's rock n' roll in country. When you see people dress, and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock n' roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star, you know?
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Bubbles
Genre
Pop Music
Rebellious
Rock Star
Edge
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The music alone wasn't enough. It was great, but when an artist had an amazing look - like the MC5, or the Stooges, or Alice Cooper - you really got sucked in. The wardrobe was so important. At a show, you were engrossed in the music, but you were also engrossed in everything from the haircuts to what they were wearing.
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Haircuts
Stooges
Wardrobe
Alice
Alone Great Music
Alice Cooper
Alone Music Great
Cooper
Wearing
Sucked
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Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life. Today, it's a source of expression. I enjoy looking at old photos of some of my favorite rock icons, but also get inspired from the younger bands that are coming up and really creating their own style, their own image.
John Varvatos / Designer
Kids
Everyday
Style
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Women tell me they won't date a guy with bad shoes. There are good-looking guys with good-looking outfits, and then really bad-looking square toe I-don't-even-want-to-mention-the-label kind of shoes. There is no reason for that. Again, invest in something that looks proper. A great pair of shoes can make your old outfit look great, too.
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No Reason
Shoes
Women Great Look
Date
Invest
Good-Looking
Outfit
Pair
Proper
Square
Toe
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I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And from as early as I can remember, seven, eight years old, I was listening to music to get a way from it all. Then the discovery of all this amazing stuff that became more than just getting away from it, it became a part of my DNA.
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Brother
Dna
Eight
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No matter what though, there's always rock & roll. There's rock 'n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock & roll in pop music, there's rock 'n' roll in soul, there's rock 'n' roll in country. When you see people dress and their style has an edge to it, that rebellious edge that bubbles up in every genre, that's rock & roll. Everybody still wants to be a rock star.
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Country
Rocks
Stars
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