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.
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.
A cheap suit is a cheap suit; there's nothing you can do about it.
Gray has this crisp, neat-as-a-pin thing going for it, whereas black seems lazy and, at the same time, like it's trying too hard.
I consistently go back to myself: What am I looking for or wanting to wear myself, right now, that I don't already have? I always figure if I'm looking for it, a lot of guys are.
There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York!
You don't want to have a boring runway presentation, but you don't want to show stuff nobody is going to wear.
I have a very wonderful bath ritual.
I'm actually really obsessed with folk art.
What I know of Hawaii is from watching the 'Brady Bunch' shows from the seventies.
Good clothes are good clothes, and they don't need whales and tricks and too many jokes. Sometimes you just need something to wear.
I'm always asking, 'How do you give a guy a new reason to buy a polo?'
The easiest thing is to create something no one has ever seen before. There's a reason no one's ever seen it - because someone tried it, and it didn't work in the real world.
Edie and Lew Wasserman were chic as hell.
Just being out in the world gives me ideas.
I'm a big fan of TV on demand. I'm embarrassed to say what I watch. It's the worst crap.
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.
I'm a New Yorker, so I don't own a car, but I rent a lot of cars.
I've always had this thing for swimming pools - I think they're much sexier and far more glamorous than the beach, in a way. You dress differently when you're spending a day at an amazing pool than you would dress for the beach.
I've been to parties where I've seen guys mess up. They've been dying to bust out those crazy embroidered corduroys all year long, and it doesn't always fly.
