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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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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

Time Made Way More Because Accessible Materials Line Version Michael Same Just Where Different Place Certain Use Certain Way Designer

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

You Walk Men Those Kind See Minute Guy Naomi Always Doing Hips Falls Lot Campbell Apart Things Need

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

You Runway Wear Boring Nobody Stuff Going Want Show Presentation

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. Michael Bastian

You Think Other More Studio Going Where Whole Preppy Thing

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

Just being out in the world gives me ideas. Michael Bastian

Me World Out Gives Ideas Just Being

As a group, the fashion industry has been one of the strongest in the effort to fight HIV and AIDS. There are many groups dedicated to fighting this disease; GMHC's Fashion Forward is just one of them. But I think everyone in this industry fights it in their own way. Michael Bastian

Fashion Fight Own Fighting Group Think AIDS Everyone Way Has-Been Strongest Industry Been Effort Disease HIV Just Just One Them Dedicated Fights Forward Many Groups Fashion Industry

One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way - how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then. Michael Bastian

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

You can have a real ongoing dialogue through social media that wasn't possible before. Michael Bastian

You Social Media Before Possible Ongoing Through Real Dialogue Social Media

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

Walls Thomas Foot Envied Head Bound Always Bed Tiny Jefferson

I never doubted my place in the world. Michael Bastian

World Never Place Doubted

I still don't think I'm a fashion guy. I think I'm a clothes guy. I'm a little obsessive. Michael Bastian

Fashion Clothes Think Guy Obsessive Still Little

I've always had this idea that I would love to do a Boston-inspired collection, whether it's for my own line or whether it's for Gant. Michael Bastian

Love Own Collection Would My Own Had Idea Always Line Whether

I feel like everyone should buy less but buy better. Michael Bastian

Buy Better Everyone Feel Like Should Less

I love doing these little collaborations. We collaborate with Stubbs & Wooton on the shoes for Michael Bastian. Michael Bastian

Love Shoes Collaborate Collaborations Doing Michael Little

Even if it's a polo shirt and chinos, they should be the best possible quality and fit perfectly. Michael Bastian

Best Quality Possible Perfectly Fit Shirt Polo Should Even

Anyone can be James Dean for a day. Michael Bastian

Day Dean James Anyone James Dean

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