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" Edie and Lew Wasserman were chic as hell. "
Michael Bastian
Chic
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Were
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" If everything is a little baggy, then everything will look sloppy when you layer one piece on top of another. Your sport coat should easily fit over a shirt and a fine-gauge sweater. "
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" The guys who like chinos and cords never went away. They've always been there. They're remarkably loyal, just not remarkably vocal. "
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" When you think mid-seventies, you think of Studio 54, but there was a whole other thing going on. Where I was, it was more deep-woods preppy. Real-guy preppy. "
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" My big mission in life is to get guys out of those big, baggy board shorts down to their knees. It always looks like they're trying to hide something, like skinny legs. "
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" I still don't think I'm a fashion guy. I think I'm a clothes guy. I'm a little obsessive. "
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" Just being out in the world gives me ideas. "
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" Honestly, I'm not so much of a tech guy. "
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" You get to a certain age, and you learn what looks good on you. "
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" I once had this idea that I wanted to make the perfect boxer short that's not too long, not too short, with pearl buttons, made from real shirting fabric. They were coming in at $215. Well, not even the richest guy in the world is going to pay more than $125 for his underwear. "
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" You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before. "
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Media
Possible
" 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. "
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" Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are. "
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" My goal is to elevate the whole casual end of the guy's wardrobe. "
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Casual
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" 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. "
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Car
" Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn't kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you're using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable. "
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You
Never
Over
" 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. "
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Walk
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" Gray feels like the city. "
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City
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" At a certain point, this is a brand. It's got to be bigger than me as one little person. We have a lane - and it's a good lane - and want to drive faster down that lane. "
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Me
Want
" When I began designing my Spring '13 collection, it wasn't even Spring '12 yet. Snow was actually still on the ground in New York, but I knew I wanted this particular spring season to be freer, more colorful, easier, more about feeling good, and I wanted there to be a sexier feeling than we've been known for in the past. "
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Snow
Past
Good
" 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. "
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Man
Job
Myself
" 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. "
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Place
Time
Way
" 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. "
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Love
Always
Idea
" I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars. "
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Rent
Yorker
" Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground. "
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Just
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" I love doing these little collaborations. We collaborate with Stubbs & Wooton on the shoes for Michael Bastian. "
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Shoes
Love
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" All it takes is for one person to say, 'Wow, that looks great on you' - and then they wear it for the next 10 years. That's the great thing about guys. They just need that little bit of encouragement. "
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You
Encouragement
Great
" I know how to cane chairs - how's that for a useless skill? My mom once took a course and taught me how to do it when I was stuck at home sick with the flu. Now I'm all set if I ever decide to drop out of fashion and join an Amish community. "
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Home
Sick
Fashion
" Menswear remains steady. It's a difference of a pleat versus flat-front pant or two buttons versus three in the jacket. "
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Difference
Two
Steady
" 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. "
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Now
Back
Always
" Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester. "
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DNA