Friday, October 17, 2008

John Doucette and Marty Bebout moved to Santa Barbara to open Blue Bee in the year 2000. They started with one store and slowly expanded into the six that they now own and manage.

In 2002, John and Marty opened Blue Bee Jeans, which recently moved into a 5000 square foot warehouse-style shop on historic State Street. This store carries every premium denim brand available including, but not limited to AG, 7 for all Mankind, Paige, Joe’s Jeans, Citizens, Hudson, Rock & Republic, Rich & Skinny, True Religion, Earnest Sewn, Diesel and more. Blue Bee Jeans has the best assortment of cool tees from Splendid, C&C, Zooey, and more. Also, they proudly offer exclusive styles from Ella Moss and Marc by Marc Jacobs.

Blue Bee Boutique which is the original store offers 12th Street, Alice + Olivia, Da-Nang, James Perse, and Venice 291. This store was recently remodeled and John and Marty helped all of their favorite designers create shop areas within the store to showcase their brands. It is beautiful and amazing – definitely every girl’s dream!

There are two men’s stores, Blue Beetle and Blue Bee Men. Blue Beetle is the jeans and t-shirt store that sells the best denim brands from basic lines like 7 for all Mankind, Diesel, and AG to more special lines like Earnest Sewn, Rogan, RRL, and Ksubi. They also offer casual clothing lines like Modern Amusement, Quiksilver Ltd., Gilded Age and Converse John Varvatos. Blue Bee Men is their designer men’s store, which features shop-in-shop areas by John Varvatos, Ralph Lauren and Paul Smith. Blue Bee Men also has special collections by exclusive designers, Nice Collective, The Great China Wall, Billionaire Boys Club, Lucien Pellat-Finet, D&G and Marc Jacobs.

Blue Bee Luxury is the crown jewel of the Blue Bee family of stores. They carry designer clothing collections including Moschino, Alberta Ferretti, Paul Smith and D&G Dolce & Gabbana. Other collections shown here include Rob
ert Rodriguez, Burning Torch and their favorite Loeffler Randall. Blue Bee Luxury also has an extensive designer shoe offering and an amazing collection of artisan fine jewelry from Melissa Joy Manning, Anthony Nak, Erickson Beamon, Mizuki and Loree Rodkin.

Of course, they don’t forget the little fashion munchkins – for this they have Blue Bee Kids! Here you will find all of the things to outfit your little fashionistas – True Religion, Ella Moss, Splendid, Little Marc Jacobs, Joe’s Jeans, Splendid and the list goes on. Also, you will find fun, cool books and gifts for kids.

Tylie Malibu can be found at Blue Bee Jeans.
913 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(805) 882-2468 ext. 2
bluebeejeans@bluebee.com