Posted by Bram Teitelman on July 22, 2016
If you’ve never been to the John Varvatos store in New York City, that might be understandable. However, if you don’t know what once stood at 315 Bowery where the store is located, then you probably shouldn’t go there in the first place. Once the home of seminal punk rock club CBGB’s, the Lower East Side retail […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on July 22, 2016
Guns N’ Roses will be playing two shows this weekend at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, and John Varvatos and Bravado have collaborated for a pop-up shop at the John Varvatos store at 315 Bowery (the former site of CBGB). There will be a launch party today from noon-2. More info here.
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 20, 2014
Earlier this year , KISS were photographed for designer John Varvatos’ Spring and Summer campaign. Inspired by the Dressed to Kill album cover, the band (well, Paul, Gene and those other two guys) were shot in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood in suits that probably cost more than the recording sessions for their first album 40 years ago. […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 26, 2012
It’s been just over five years since the last note was played at iconic New York City fixture CBGB’s. Long before the club closed, however, the East Village neighborhood that it opened in back in 1973 had been gentrifying. The club finally shut down over back rent due, and now the original site at Bleecker […]
