American - Designer | October 13, 1965 -
Preppy never goes away. It just has its moment every 15 years, and then it goes back underground.
Michael Bastian
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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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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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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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