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.

Michael Bastian

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Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down.

Michael Bastian

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Buy less, buy better, and really wear it.

Michael Bastian

Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.

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If guys step back and are just honest about what they think looks good on them, it’s really hard to lose. You can spot guys who take on personas that are not theirs.

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My favorite place to shop is: any Duane Reade.

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Everyone looks better and more alive in a pink shirt.

Michael Bastian

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A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt.

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Guys look best when they have a healthy disrespect for their clothes.

Michael Bastian

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It's easy to get wrapped up in the season-to-season business, but to have real longevity in this field, you've got to always maintain your point of view and what makes your brand unique. Your business is always going to have ups and downs, but there needs to be a certain consistency.

Michael Bastian

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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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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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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

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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.

Michael Bastian

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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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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

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Men and women shop very differently, and where women are open to edgy, conceptual looks, very, very few men are.

Michael Bastian

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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.

Michael Bastian

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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.

Michael Bastian

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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

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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.

Michael Bastian

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