Dapper Duds & Other Nice Things

To me, there are two kinds of designers. There is the designer with the big D and the designer with a small d. I am more of the latter. I do not want to dramatically change how men dress, I just want to change it so slightly [so] that men will be surprised at how good they look in return. I hope to bring fashion back a little to reality. You don’t need a million pieces of clothing, what you need is a handful of perfect things. And what I do is provide perfect versions of those things – clothes that men would want to wear every day because true luxury is something you can wear every day.

Michael Bastian

(Source: prestigehongkong.com, via jhilla)

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As always there are those who reveal their asininity (as they did throughout his career) with ascriptions like “salesman”, “showman” or the giveaway blunder “triumph of style over substance”. The use of that last phrase, “style over substance” has always been, as Oscar Wilde observed, a marvellous and instant indicator of a fool. For those who perceive a separation between the two have either not lived, thought, read or experienced the world with any degree of insight, imagination or connective intelligence. It may have been Leclerc Buffon who first said “le style c’est l’homme – the style is the man” but it is an observation that anyone with sense had understood centuries before, Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious could be so dumb as to believe that there is a distinction between design and use, between form and function, between style and substance.

Stephen Fry (on Steve Jobs)

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