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" You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before. "
Michael Bastian
Real
Media
Possible
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" 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
" 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 personally would rather layer up than put on a big, heavy coat. "
Michael Bastian
Big
Rather
Layer
" I'm actually really obsessed with folk art. "
Michael Bastian
Really
Art
Folk
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Live
School
Say
" 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
" 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
" Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground. "
Michael Bastian
Years
Just
Never
" Menswear remains steady. It's a difference of a pleat versus flat-front pant or two buttons versus three in the jacket. "
Michael Bastian
Difference
Two
Steady
" Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester. "
Michael Bastian
Unique
Feel
DNA
" 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
" 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
" You get to a certain age, and you learn what looks good on you. "
Michael Bastian
Learn
You
Age
" Even if it's a polo shirt and chinos, they should be the best possible quality and fit perfectly. "
Michael Bastian
Shirt
Best
Quality
" 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
" Anyone can be James Dean for a day. "
Michael Bastian
James Dean
James
Dean
" 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
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
You
Never
Over
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Snow
Past
Good
" 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
" Good clothes are good clothes, and they don't need whales and tricks and too many jokes. Sometimes you just need something to wear. "
Michael Bastian
Clothes
You
Sometimes
" There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York! "
Michael Bastian
Way
New York
Wrong
" The guys who like chinos and cords never went away. They've always been there. They're remarkably loyal, just not remarkably vocal. "
Michael Bastian
Away
Never
Loyal
" I love doing these little collaborations. We collaborate with Stubbs & Wooton on the shoes for Michael Bastian. "
Michael Bastian
Shoes
Love
I Love
" I don't know if I would use that word, 'trailblazer.' That implies that this huge crowd followed me, and that certainly is not the case! "
Michael Bastian
Use
Me
Know
" 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
" 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
" I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles. "
Michael Bastian
Seem
Monkey
Men
" I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars. "
Michael Bastian
Car
Rent
Yorker
" 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. "
Michael Bastian
Red
Uniform
Black