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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. "
Michael Bastian
Look
Walk
Like
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" Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester. "
Michael Bastian
Unique
Feel
DNA
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Dark
Myself
Small
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
You
Encouragement
Great
" 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'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
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Morning
Love
Ready
" Swedish winters are not for the faint of heart. "
Michael Bastian
Faint
Swedish
Winters
" I feel like everyone should buy less but buy better. "
Michael Bastian
I Feel
Like
Feel
" 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! "
Michael Bastian
Weird
You
Night
" 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
" Edie and Lew Wasserman were chic as hell. "
Michael Bastian
Chic
Hell
Were
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Good
Me
Want
" I consistently go back to myself: What am I looking for or wanting to wear myself, right now, that I don't already have? I always figure if I'm looking for it, a lot of guys are. "
Michael Bastian
Now
Back
Always
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Finding
Us
Settle
" You get to a certain age, and you learn what looks good on you. "
Michael Bastian
Learn
You
Age
" 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
" My goal is to elevate the whole casual end of the guy's wardrobe. "
Michael Bastian
End
Casual
Whole
" 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 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
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Your Body
Money
Body
" Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right. "
Michael Bastian
Right
Privilege
" Honestly, I'm not so much of a tech guy. "
Michael Bastian
Guy
Tech
Much
" 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
" Anyone can be James Dean for a day. "
Michael Bastian
James Dean
James
Dean
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Work
Someone
World
" I've always envied Thomas Jefferson's bed at Monticello. It's in a tiny alcove, bound by walls at the head and foot. "
Michael Bastian
Tiny
Walls
Always
" Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are. "
Michael Bastian
Edgy
Women
Looks
" 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
Live
City
Car
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Open
Honest
Yourself