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

Michael Bastian

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" You get to a certain age, and you learn what looks good on you. "

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" You don't want to have a boring runway presentation, but you don't want to show stuff nobody is going to wear. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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" I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars. "

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" I personally would rather layer up than put on a big, heavy coat. "

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" Guys look best when they have a healthy disrespect for their clothes. "

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" With tailored clothing, you can really see where the money went. How it's constructed, how it fits your body - this becomes very apparent in tailored clothing. "

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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. "

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" I'm always much more inspired by random people on the street. I live down by NYU and The New School, and I'd almost say close your eyes and pull a student out, and they're gonna be a little bit cooler than the average celebrity. "

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" A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt. "

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" Everyone looks better and more alive in a pink shirt. "

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" Anyone can be James Dean for a day. "

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

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" I have a very wonderful bath ritual. "

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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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" 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. "

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" 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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" I'm always asking, 'How do you give a guy a new reason to buy a polo?' "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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