Quotes from Michael Bastian

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.

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.

I like the idea that we settle into what looks best on us. Then it becomes a game of finding the perfect version of those things.

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.

Menswear remains steady. It's a difference of a pleat versus flat-front pant or two buttons versus three in the jacket.

I never doubted my place in the world.

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

The beauty of men's shoppers is that they're super loyal.