Fashion Week Q & A: Michael Bastian

Designer Michael Bastian attends GQ And John Slattery Celebrate The Launch Of The April 2012 Issue at The Jane Hotel in Manhattan. (March 12, 2012) Credit: Getty Images
What’s your Fashion Week motto?
Live through this.
Which models are you itching to see hit the catwalk?
I really hope someone uses this great new girl I met in Sweden. She looks like a prettier Leonardo DiCaprio. Her name is Erika Linder.
What’s your biggest Fashion Week mishap ever?
Somehow the wrong version of a song started playing during one of my shows. And we were all standing backstage going, ‘What the f---?!’
Showing his eponymous line Sept. 9 at Made at Milk Studios and his GANT by Michael Bastian line Sept. 12 at Industria Superstudio