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" &amp;quot;Our pre-spring collection was all about this idea of the movie The Red Balloon, and we wanted pre-spring and spring to fit together. So we asked ourselves, &amp;#039;How do you roll this idea into a whole collection?&amp;#039; We decided to think about Paris, and it eventually snowballed into this general idea of French guys. Because they do have a particular style. It&amp;#039;s not American, it&amp;#039;s not Italian, it&amp;#039;s not Japanese \u2014 there is a kind of French style. And I became obsessed with this beach they create in Paris called the Paris Plage, where they just make a fake beach on the Seine for one month a year. So there&amp;#039;s this fantasy guy we have: He&amp;#039;s a banker during the day, but then he hops on his scooter, drives to the beach, takes his suit off, and falls down onto the beach. How crazy to do that, in a city like Paris?&amp;quot; \u2014Michael Bastian Above: The designer in front of his spring/summer 2014 mood board Below: A preview of the looks going down the runway in NYC right now, plus a few of our favorite pieces from next season (all photos by Elizabeth Griffin)           "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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