Michael Bastian Quotes

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Michael Bastian

Profession : Designer

Birth : October 13, 1965

When you buy a new suit, take the time to get it tailored, and you'll thank yourself every time you put it on.

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Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

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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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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 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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Anyone can be James Dean for a day.

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I seem to go through phases with collecting stuff: vintage Japanese men's magazines, coconut monkey carvings, '70s belt buckles.

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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 have a very wonderful bath ritual.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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The minute you see a guy doing one of those Naomi Campbell catwalk-action kind of things, it falls apart. A lot of hips and the scissor walk? No! Men always need to be men.

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My goal is to elevate the whole casual end of the guy's wardrobe.

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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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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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A cheap suit is a cheap suit; there's nothing you can do about it.

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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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