"In the early '70s, coming out of the '60s, it was very hippy or it was very uniform, like The Beatle..." — John Varvatos

I like someone who has a little bad boy in them, a little edge.

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.

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.

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.