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" I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars. "
Michael Bastian
Car
Rent
Yorker
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" I'm actually really obsessed with folk art. "
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Really
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Folk
" I have a very wonderful bath ritual. "
Michael Bastian
Ritual
Wonderful
Very
" Women are more open to trying on a new personality every season; they can go from goth to bombshell to librarian, whatever. "
Michael Bastian
Trying
Personality
New
" A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt. "
Michael Bastian
Just
Shirt
Experience
" There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York! "
Michael Bastian
Way
New York
Wrong
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Home
Sick
Fashion
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Great
Humor
Baseball
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Mission
Looks
Trying
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Respect
Women
Men
" One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way - how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then. "
Michael Bastian
Feel
Test
World
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Real
Perfect
Long
" Swedish winters are not for the faint of heart. "
Michael Bastian
Faint
Swedish
Winters
" The beauty of men's shoppers is that they're super loyal. "
Michael Bastian
Loyal
Super
Men
" Gray feels like the city. "
Michael Bastian
Gray
City
Feels
" As a group, the fashion industry has been one of the strongest in the effort to fight HIV and AIDS. There are many groups dedicated to fighting this disease; GMHC's Fashion Forward is just one of them. But I think everyone in this industry fights it in their own way. "
Michael Bastian
Fight
Fashion
Fighting
" Just being out in the world gives me ideas. "
Michael Bastian
Being
World
Out
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Business
Ups And Downs
Consistency
" I'm always asking, 'How do you give a guy a new reason to buy a polo?' "
Michael Bastian
Reason
Always
You
" You don't want to have a boring runway presentation, but you don't want to show stuff nobody is going to wear. "
Michael Bastian
Want
Nobody
Boring
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Hate
First
Animal
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Going
Think
Where
" Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground. "
Michael Bastian
Years
Just
Never
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
People
Beach
Style
" I feel like everyone should buy less but buy better. "
Michael Bastian
I Feel
Like
Feel
" I've always had this thing for swimming pools - I think they're much sexier and far more glamorous than the beach, in a way. You dress differently when you're spending a day at an amazing pool than you would dress for the beach. "
Michael Bastian
You
Amazing
Beach
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Place
Time
Way
" What I know of Hawaii is from watching the 'Brady Bunch' shows from the seventies. "
Michael Bastian
Know
Watching
Seventies
" Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester. "
Michael Bastian
Unique
Feel
DNA
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Brain
Space
Move On
" I stay in a lot of hotels, and the best part of travel is getting back to my own bed. "
Michael Bastian
Bed
Best
Back