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Photography: Danny Clinch

Good, old Gentleman’s Quarterly made the right call when they dubbed John Varvatos the “Designer of the Year”—the title fits him like one of his blazers. As the paisley-clad Simon Doonan of Barney’s notes in GQ’s panegyric on Varvatos, “John’s rustic outfits make guys look even more butch rather than less so.”

Indeed, Varvatos doesn’t design to please the refined palettes of editors and critics…