Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation to Appear at Thomas Weisel Partners Consumer Conference...

Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation to Appear at Thomas Weisel Partners Consumer Conference on September 22, 2008

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (NYSE: PVH) announced today that
Company management will appear at the Thomas Weisel Partners Consumer
Conference being held in New York City on Monday, September 22, 2008
at 9:45 AM Eastern time.

The live webcast (audio-only) and a replay available beginning one
hour after the conference may be accessed by logging onto www.pvh.com
and going to the News page.

Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation is one of the world's largest
apparel companies. It owns and markets the Calvin Klein brand
worldwide. It is the world's largest shirt and neckwear company and
markets a variety of goods under its own brands, Van Heusen, Calvin
Klein, IZOD, ARROW, Bass and G.H. Bass & Co., and its licensed brands
including Geoffrey Beene, Kenneth Cole New York, Kenneth Cole
Reaction, unlisted, A Kenneth Cole Production, BCBG Max Azria, BCBG
Attitude, MICHAEL Michael Kors, Sean John, Chaps, Donald J. Trump
Signature Collection, JOE Joseph Abboud, Tommy Hilfiger, DKNY, and
Timberland.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION
REFORM ACT OF 1995: Forward-looking statements in made during the
presentation, including, without limitation, statements relating to
the Company's future revenues and earnings, plans, strategies,
objectives, expectations and intentions, are made pursuant to the safe
harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements are
inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which cannot be
predicted with accuracy, and some of which might not be anticipated,
including, without limitation, the following: (i) the Company's plans,
strategies, objectives, expectations and intentions are subject to
change at any time at the discretion of the Company; (ii) the levels
of sales of the Company's apparel and footwear products, both to its
wholesale customers and in its retail stores, and the levels of sales
of the Company's licensees at wholesale and retail, and the extent of
discounts and promotional pricing in which the Company and its
licensees are required to engage, all of which can be affected by
weather conditions, changes in the economy, fuel prices, reductions in
travel, fashion trends, consolidations, repositionings and
bankruptcies in the retail industries, repositioning of brands by the
Company's licensors and other factors; (iii) the Company's plans and
results of operations will be affected by the Company's ability to
manage its growth and inventory, including the Company's ability to
continue to realize revenue growth from developing and growing Calvin
Klein; (iv) the Company's operations and results could be affected by
quota restrictions and safeguard controls (which, among other things,
could limit the Company's ability to produce products in
cost-effective countries that have the labor and technical expertise
needed), the availability and cost of raw materials (particularly
petroleum-based synthetic fabrics, which are currently in high
demand), the Company's ability to adjust timely to changes in trade
regulations and the migration and development of manufacturers (which
can affect where the Company's products can best be produced), and
civil conflict, war or terrorist acts, the threat of any of the
foregoing or political and labor instability in the United States or
any of the countries where the Company's products are or are planned
to be produced; (v) disease epidemics and health related concerns,
which could result in closed factories, reduced workforces, scarcity
of raw materials and scrutiny or embargoing of goods produced in
infected areas; (vi) acquisitions and issues arising with acquisitions
and proposed transactions, including without limitation, the ability
to integrate an acquired entity into the Company with no substantial
adverse affect on the acquired entity's, or the Company's existing,
operations, employee relationships, vendor relationships, customer
relationships or financial performance; (vii) the failure of the
Company's licensees to market successfully licensed products or to
preserve the value of the Company's brands, or their misuse of the
Company's brands and (viii) other risks and uncertainties indicated
from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.

The Company's presentation includes non-GAAP financial measures,
as defined under SEC rules. A reconciliation of these measures is
included in the Company's press release of August 20, 2008, which is
available on the Company's website at www.pvh.com, and in its Current
Reports on Form 8-K furnished to the SEC in connection with that press
release, which is available both on the Company's website at
www.pvh.com and the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.

The information made available during the presentation contains
certain forward-looking statements which reflect the Company's view or
future events and financial performance as of August 20, 2008 and the
Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly any such
forward-looking statement, including, without limitation, any estimate
regarding revenues or earnings, whether as a result of the receipt of
new information, future events or otherwise.

Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation
Michael Shaffer, 212-381-3523
Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
www.pvh.com

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