After 10 Successful Years, John Varvatos Tells WWD About His Next Decade

WWD has done a solid job of covering the 10 years since former head of Menswear Design at Polo Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein broke off to found his own, self-titled New York based apparel line, John Varvatos. Naturally, read up—but we were actually more charmed by Varvatos’ vision of what he wants to be doing when, God willing, his company reaches the 20-year mark. “I want to be on a beach with my team celebrating my 20 years, just the fact that we made it 20 years…

Right now, I’m more concerned with the business end of it: sticking to our handwriting and our personality, and owning what we do… I’m trying not to take my eye off of one year at a time. It’s one of the reasons we’ve come through the downturn and out quickly, because as a brand we’re focused on the customer and not getting caught up [with anything else]. We want to be better every season, and better than ever in 20 years.” Nice. We wish our boss would take us to the beach. [WWD]