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" Celebrities, the beach, and Coachella, that's what everyone thinks about when they think of Los Angeles. Then you see these people living in Bel-Air and Beverly Hills, and they're so chic and have so much style. "

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" I'm a big believer in small, dark, cozy bedrooms. I would describe myself as introspective - I feel things first, and then I think them through - and I need the enveloping comfort of a little squirrel's nest when I have to retreat from the world to recharge. "

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" I've been to parties where I've seen guys mess up. They've been dying to bust out those crazy embroidered corduroys all year long, and it doesn't always fly. "

" The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better. "

" Just being out in the world gives me ideas. "

" I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep. "

" I love doing these little collaborations. We collaborate with Stubbs & Wooton on the shoes for Michael Bastian. "

" When you live in a city where you're always in and out of a car or a building, I feel it's... better to treat a heavier, tweedier sport coat almost as you would outerwear. "

" I never doubted my place in the world. "

" I personally would rather layer up than put on a big, heavy coat. "

" I consistently go back to myself: What am I looking for or wanting to wear myself, right now, that I don't already have? I always figure if I'm looking for it, a lot of guys are. "

" A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt. "

" I've always had this idea that I would love to do a Boston-inspired collection, whether it's for my own line or whether it's for Gant. "

" Women are more open to trying on a new personality every season; they can go from goth to bombshell to librarian, whatever. "

" Michael Bastian is a designer line and priced a certain way because of where it's made and the materials we use, and Gant is the more accessible version of that: more sports-inspired, more branding. It has the same DNA; it's just a different time and place. "

" I kind of have a uniform for office parties and Christmas parties. What I do is put on a basic tuxedo shirt with a solid navy or black tie, a tweed jacket, a red pocket square, and some sort of fancy shoe or velvet slipper. "

" I think women are much more open to new ideas but approach a line more from a more personal and skeptical place - you need to seduce them into your clothes, whereas most men just like to be told what they should be wearing. Women are a bit like cats and men like dogs in that respect when it comes to clothes. "

" The minute you see a guy doing one of those Naomi Campbell catwalk-action kind of things, it falls apart. A lot of hips and the scissor walk? No! Men always need to be men. "

" What I know of Hawaii is from watching the 'Brady Bunch' shows from the seventies. "

" My goal is to elevate the whole casual end of the guy's wardrobe. "

" I still don't think I'm a fashion guy. I think I'm a clothes guy. I'm a little obsessive. "

" A cheap suit is a cheap suit; there's nothing you can do about it. "

" I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business. "

" Gray has this crisp, neat-as-a-pin thing going for it, whereas black seems lazy and, at the same time, like it's trying too hard. "

" Good clothes are good clothes, and they don't need whales and tricks and too many jokes. Sometimes you just need something to wear. "

" I like the idea that we settle into what looks best on us. Then it becomes a game of finding the perfect version of those things. "

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" Guys look best when they have a healthy disrespect for their clothes. "

" I'm a designer with a little 'd' as opposed to a big 'd.' It's a job; I'm more about contributing to a man's wardrobe, offering the things that I look for myself. "

" Even if it's a polo shirt and chinos, they should be the best possible quality and fit perfectly. "

" Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground. "

" I don't know if I would use that word, 'trailblazer.' That implies that this huge crowd followed me, and that certainly is not the case! "

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