Outside of white button-down oord cloth shirts, Trickers brogues, 501s, and Ray-Ban Aviators, the single item of clothing that I have had in my closet consistently since 1982 is a pair of black-and-white checked Vans. They are the lazy man's shoe - perfect for dog walking and security lines at the airport.

Nick Wooster

I understand I'm not everyone's cup of tea, and I certainly don't want everyone to look like me. I really only dress for myself.

Nick Wooster

Want Very Up

Great product trumps all. You can have the biggest marketing budget, the biggest show, a perfect merchandising plan, but at the end of the day, it doesn't mean anything if the design and quality of the product you are offering is not compelling.

Nick Wooster

Great Design You

I almost always wear a jacket, but I like different jackets. I also like funny pants.

Nick Wooster

Funny Wear Ways

Some people are born with a caul. I was born with a jacket.

Nick Wooster

Wit T Some People

I grew up in the '60s and '70s when men were required to wear a suit, shirt, and tie every day to be taken seriously. I was at the tail end of that generation, and it had a significant impact on me.

Nick Wooster

Men Were Wear

Men shop for problem solving. They want something familiar. So if it's a new version of something they understand, they are right there with it and, hopefully, loving it.

Nick Wooster

Men Hope Wit

Outside of white button-down oord cloth shirts, Trickers brogues, 501s, and Ray-Ban Aviators, the single item of clothing that I have had in my closet consistently since 1982 is a pair of black-and-white checked Vans. They are the lazy man's shoe - perfect for dog walking and security lines at the airport.

Nick Wooster

White Walking Walk

The only pair of trousers a guy needs are grey flannel.

Nick Wooster

Users User Use

Fire Island Pines is my perfect escape from N.Y.C. on weekends. Beautiful beaches, great restaurants, and fun people - exactly what I need after a crazy New York week.

Nick Wooster

Great York Weekends

For me, a Thom Browne suit is an investment.

Nick Wooster

Men Vest T

I'm so obsessed with Apple, and the chance to work with the people who really created Apple retail is the retail opportunity of a lifetime.

Nick Wooster

Work Time Life

Everyone looks better in clothes that skim the body. Items that fit properly make you look better than wearing something oversize.

Nick Wooster

You Wearing Wear

I'm a kid from Kansas, so J.C. Penney was where I got all my clothes from kindergarten to around 7th grade.

Nick Wooster

Art Where UN

My dad was a mechanic, and I have great style memories of him. He wore, every single day: a blue chambray shirt, Levi's 501s, and Red Wing boots. And that certainly wasn't fashionable at the time; it was basically the opposite. And he wore these horn rim glasses that were very Sol Moscot.

Nick Wooster

Time Great Wore

It's a love-and-hate relationship with New York. Much like Hong Kong, it's expensive, crowded, the weather is not so nice. But New York is home, and I love New York.

Nick Wooster

Relationship Love Home

To me, how you dress is a way to show you care.

Nick Wooster

Car You Way

Texas has a uniquely warm climate. So fabric weights and lengths of coats are always a concern.

Nick Wooster

War Weights Weight

I got fired from Neiman Marcus and Bergdorfs, and JC Penney didn't work out.

Nick Wooster

Work Work Out Us

Clothes are an amazing tool. They are an amazing way to hide a multitude of sins; they're an amazing way to be creative. Clothes can do so many things. But at the end of the day, if they don't serve you, it's just a waste of time. Then it is frivolous.

Nick Wooster

Time Amazing You

I really like neck tattoos and hand tattoos. They're just not for me.

Nick Wooster

Us Too Tattoos

I think with black tie, you can't really do too much. I think you have to pretty much stick to the rules on that.

Nick Wooster

Clothes and fashion should work in people's lives. Period.

Nick Wooster

Camo is almost like a solid. It is the perfect uniform: you can wear camo in any application and it is always right.

Nick Wooster

Getting dressed, for me, is like a window to my soul.

Nick Wooster

I'll never forget my transition from pleated pants to plain front pants. It was the late '80s. I couldn't get rid of those pleated pants fast enough.

Nick Wooster

I never wear a black belt with a black shoe. It's always the opposite: a brown shoe with a black belt.

Nick Wooster

I've seen a few lookalikes, and that kind of freaks me out, but then I'm not the first person on the planet to have tattoos, and I'm not the first person to have hair or a tattoo sleeve.

Nick Wooster

I feel like the menswear blogger is a special breed, and by that, I mean they really have brought menswear out of the closet and into the public discourse where guys are not afraid to talk about style, dressing, clothes.

Nick Wooster

Thom Browne is, in my opinion, one of the great minds in men's wear.

Nick Wooster

I have a reputation that was sort of built on suits and boots, so I'm a huge fan of the sartorial equivalent of a mullet, where you're business on top and party on the bottom.

Nick Wooster

I actually come from a long line of barbers.

Nick Wooster

Oh God, I am so pro-shorts. I love shorts.

Nick Wooster

I have to say, I love the summer, but I don't love summer clothes to the degree I love fall clothes.

Nick Wooster

I guess I know how to dress myself, and that's probably the only thing I can do, so it's nice that somebody notices.

Nick Wooster

My advice to young people - wait until it's your turn. Just kidding, sorta.

Nick Wooster

I think a lot of gay kids in the midwest or in places not in New York have to overachieve in order to sort of get through the fear of what they're going through.

Nick Wooster

I still think of myself as a retailer first, but I also know how to make clothes.

Nick Wooster

I have been a fan of Forty Five Ten since my first visit to Dallas in 2010, when I was working with the hometown competitor.

Nick Wooster

I happen to have an expensive clothing habit, so, for me, designing clothes is a way to kill two birds with one stone.

Nick Wooster

I think Hong Kong has always had this tradition of custom-made suits, which I've never done but love the idea of.

Nick Wooster

To me, a Harris Tweed jacket is the kind of thing you should be able to have in your closet years from now - possibly it was your father's jacket or, even better, your grandfather's jacket.

Nick Wooster

I love London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris - there are a million places I could imagine I like, but N.Y. is home.

Nick Wooster

Not all black T-shirts are created equal.

Nick Wooster

I went through a Billy Idol phase. I had white hair when Peter Rizzo hired me at Barneys.

Nick Wooster

A man in Tom Ford will develop a nice, long relationship with the brand. Ford is very smart about positioning his product. He's a name that is going to remain huge.

Nick Wooster

I love Italian food - especially Tuscan-style cuisine.

Nick Wooster

There are so many more people in Tokyo than in New York, but it's pristine. It's so organized, and yet the address system is in complete chaos.

Nick Wooster

The Japanese are the ultimate students: they analyse things in so much detail... until they have pretty much mastered whatever they are studying.

Nick Wooster

A gray flannel suit by Thom Browne or Tom Ford can be worn a billion ways. I'll wear a gray flannel jacket with a white shirt, gray flannel tie, beat-up fatigues, and a dress shoe or Carpe Diem boots.

Nick Wooster

There's something about the U.S. and Japan: two opposite ends of the planet, two completely different languages, and yet, especially in menswear, they share this kind of idealized way of dressing that is so close to what we do in America.

Nick Wooster