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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. "
Michael Bastian
Want
Nobody
Boring
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars. "
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" 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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" Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester. "
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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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" 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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" Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground. "
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" I have a very wonderful bath ritual. "
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