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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. "
Michael Bastian
Better
World
Hardest
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" 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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" 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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" Honestly, I'm not so much of a tech guy. "
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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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" 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. "
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" A cheap suit is a cheap suit; there's nothing you can do about it. "
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" Gray feels like the city. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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
" 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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Your Body
Money
Body
" 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. "
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Place
Time
Way
" 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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Little
Guy
Fashion
" I'm always asking, 'How do you give a guy a new reason to buy a polo?' "
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Reason
Always
You
" 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. "
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You
Encouragement
Great
" I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles. "
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Seem
Monkey
Men
" 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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Hate
First
Animal
" There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York! "
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Way
New York
Wrong
" 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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Real
Perfect
Long
" Just being out in the world gives me ideas. "
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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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Something
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Idea
" Anyone can be James Dean for a day. "
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James
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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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Me
Want
" I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business. "
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School
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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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" 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. "
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Respect
Women
Men
" Women are more open to trying on a new personality every season; they can go from goth to bombshell to librarian, whatever. "
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Trying
Personality
New
" 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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Two
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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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