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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. "
Michael Bastian
Mission
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Trying
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" 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. "
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" The minute a male model looks like he's doing a runway walk, it falls apart. It should look like they're just walking. "
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" 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. "
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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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Possible
" I'm actually really obsessed with folk art. "
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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. "
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Ready
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
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City
Car
" People talk to me about celebrities all the time and which ones do I admire, and it's so hard because you can't tell who's doing it for themselves and who hired a stylist. "
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You
Time
" 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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Myself
Small
" I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars. "
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Car
Rent
Yorker
" 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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Think
Where
" My goal is to elevate the whole casual end of the guy's wardrobe. "
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End
Casual
Whole
" Guys look best when they have a healthy disrespect for their clothes. "
Michael Bastian
Clothes
Disrespect
Healthy
" 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
" Good clothes are good clothes, and they don't need whales and tricks and too many jokes. Sometimes you just need something to wear. "
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Clothes
You
Sometimes
" What I know of Hawaii is from watching the 'Brady Bunch' shows from the seventies. "
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Know
Watching
Seventies
" I have a very wonderful bath ritual. "
Michael Bastian
Ritual
Wonderful
Very
" Guys are leery about putting on something they don't think is them. They have a fixed idea of themselves. "
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Something
Think
Idea
" 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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You
Walk
Need
" If you're a New Yorker, there are two things that are most important: a car and a washer and dryer. Literally everyone else in America has those things! It's so weird to them that these are our luxuries. You can eat at Per Se every night, but I don't have a car or washer and dryer! "
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Weird
You
Night
" 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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Finding
Us
Settle
" 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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Red
Uniform
Black
" I stay in a lot of hotels, and the best part of travel is getting back to my own bed. "
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Bed
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Back
" Gray feels like the city. "
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City
Feels
" When you buy a new suit, take the time to get it tailored, and you'll thank yourself every time you put it on. "
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New
Suit
Take
" 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
" 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. "
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Open
Honest
Yourself
" 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. "
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Crazy
Dying
Always