Van Heusen is one of 5 brands (Izod, Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen, Arrow and Calvin Klein and charters Kenneth Cole New York, Geoffrey Beene, Chaps, Michael Kors, Sean John, BCBG Max Azria and Joseph Abboud) owned by PVH Corp., formerly known as the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation, is an American clothing company PVH is partly named after Dutch immigrant John Manning Van Heusen, who in 1910 invented a new process that fused cloth on a curve.