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" 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. "

Michael Bastian

Man

Job

Myself

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

Michael Bastian

I Feel

Feel

" 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'm a big fan of TV on demand. I'm embarrassed to say what I watch. It's the worst crap. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Anyone can be James Dean for a day. "

" 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. "

" Guys are leery about putting on something they don't think is them. They have a fixed idea of themselves. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right. "

Michael Bastian

Right

Privilege

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Gray feels like the city. "

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

" I have a very wonderful bath ritual. "

" 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. "