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" I just love walking around the Upper East Side and seeing those guys who didn't just take an extra 10 minutes in the morning to get ready, but an extra 40 minutes. "

Michael Bastian

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" I feel like everyone should buy less but buy better. "

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" 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. "

" Most guys open their closet and tend to wear about 10% of what they own - and they wear that 10% over and over again. So the trick is to be honest with yourself and figure out what that 10% is. "

" I'd like to think my brand shares some of those characteristics we like to think of as classically American - a certain straightforwardness, honesty, a sense of humor, inclusiveness, practicality - all those great Yankee traits. And I don't mean the baseball team. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My favorite animal on the Galapagos is the Galapagos Marine Iguana. The first rule of iguana-dom is that iguanas hate the water, yet somehow, these poor iguanas landed there and had to figure it out. "

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

" Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester. "

" It's easy to get wrapped up in the season-to-season business, but to have real longevity in this field, you've got to always maintain your point of view and what makes your brand unique. Your business is always going to have ups and downs, but there needs to be a certain consistency. "

" Anyone can be James Dean for a day. "

" The guys who like chinos and cords never went away. They've always been there. They're remarkably loyal, just not remarkably vocal. "

" Gray feels like the city. "

" Great ideas are very much 'of the moment,' and endlessly mulling them over just takes up too much of your brain space and might block your next great idea. Act on it, give it away, or move on. "

" 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 prefer simpler shirts, like a solid oxford or pinstripe, and with a solid cashmere crewneck or V-neck. "

" The beauty of men's shoppers is that they're super loyal. "

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

" Swedish winters are not for the faint of heart. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" The easiest thing is to create something no one has ever seen before. There's a reason no one's ever seen it - because someone tried it, and it didn't work in the real world. "

" 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. "

" I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles. "

" I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot. "

" I stay in a lot of hotels, and the best part of travel is getting back to my own bed. "